Didn’t we all already mean that when we said ‘marginal EtGers’? Like—the people whose decision to be in an earning-to-give career rather than charity is marginal? And I agree that it applies more frequently to early-career-stage. But yes, I agree that anyone could theoretically do a little less earning and a little more volunteering for example.
We probably did, but the meaning of “marginal EtGers” should be context-dependent[1], so it seemed worth clarification.
[1] For example if we’re talking about the value of persuading people to re-cast their professional career as earning-to-give, we could want to refer to people who were only just persuaded, or people in different areas who might be reached by expanding the efforts—either of which is a different margin.
Didn’t we all already mean that when we said ‘marginal EtGers’? Like—the people whose decision to be in an earning-to-give career rather than charity is marginal? And I agree that it applies more frequently to early-career-stage. But yes, I agree that anyone could theoretically do a little less earning and a little more volunteering for example.
We probably did, but the meaning of “marginal EtGers” should be context-dependent[1], so it seemed worth clarification.
[1] For example if we’re talking about the value of persuading people to re-cast their professional career as earning-to-give, we could want to refer to people who were only just persuaded, or people in different areas who might be reached by expanding the efforts—either of which is a different margin.