This topic is of much interest to me as someone new to EA, who (as a lawyer) has a lot of friends with a lot of money. I’m holding off on the hard sell until I’m sure I know what I’m doing. Giving What We Can’s calculator gave me this idea for a REALLY HARD sell, which plays on the role of default-based biases. The numbers assume a U.S. lawyer about six years out of law school who is paid market rate and gives away 75% of his income:
Yesterday the managing partner at my firm visited me and said, Michael, you’ve been working very hard for a long time, and the executive committee has taken notice. Indeed, because of your hard work you’ve been rewarded with an annual salary that puts you among the top 0.4% wealthiest people in the world. But we think you can do better. We are willing to increase your salary to put you among the top 0.1% wealthiest people in the world, and all it will cost is the lives of 65 people/year—but don’t worry, those people live thousands of miles away. What do you say?
This topic is of much interest to me as someone new to EA, who (as a lawyer) has a lot of friends with a lot of money. I’m holding off on the hard sell until I’m sure I know what I’m doing. Giving What We Can’s calculator gave me this idea for a REALLY HARD sell, which plays on the role of default-based biases. The numbers assume a U.S. lawyer about six years out of law school who is paid market rate and gives away 75% of his income:
Yesterday the managing partner at my firm visited me and said, Michael, you’ve been working very hard for a long time, and the executive committee has taken notice. Indeed, because of your hard work you’ve been rewarded with an annual salary that puts you among the top 0.4% wealthiest people in the world. But we think you can do better. We are willing to increase your salary to put you among the top 0.1% wealthiest people in the world, and all it will cost is the lives of 65 people/year—but don’t worry, those people live thousands of miles away. What do you say?