Thanks for raising this topic. Your position probably captures what very many people think when hearing about “earning to give” for the first time. It’s difficult to engage with most of your points, though, because in the last sentence of your reply you seem to be favoring a situation where conditions deteriorate, rather than improve, for impoverished people, so that political changes will take place that you believe will be ultimately beneficial. That’s probably correct under some circumstances, but in general the burden of proof would be on you.
Alternatively, if you think political change is the way to ultimately help people, wouldn’t you want high-earning persons to support efforts at political change, if there are advocacy organizations in need of funds? Would you agree that, in principle, the positive effects of that investment could outweigh negative effects from the marginal usefulness of that person to their employer, above their next-best-qualified potential employee?
Thanks for raising this topic. Your position probably captures what very many people think when hearing about “earning to give” for the first time. It’s difficult to engage with most of your points, though, because in the last sentence of your reply you seem to be favoring a situation where conditions deteriorate, rather than improve, for impoverished people, so that political changes will take place that you believe will be ultimately beneficial. That’s probably correct under some circumstances, but in general the burden of proof would be on you.
Alternatively, if you think political change is the way to ultimately help people, wouldn’t you want high-earning persons to support efforts at political change, if there are advocacy organizations in need of funds? Would you agree that, in principle, the positive effects of that investment could outweigh negative effects from the marginal usefulness of that person to their employer, above their next-best-qualified potential employee?