Thanks for adding this Nithya, I agree with both points. This post was more about raising a question I hadn’t seen discussed much in EA spaces and so there is likely research that supports or weakens the argument I didn’t come across.
My general impression is that non profits tend to teach skills that are less valuable longer term when globally 90% of jobs are in the private sector, even if the skills are valuable to some extent.
It’s also about who is learning the skills, if the people who would have been the top 5% of entrepreneurs/leaders/scientists are not working in those spaces that seems like a loss for those countries.
Thanks for adding this Nithya, I agree with both points. This post was more about raising a question I hadn’t seen discussed much in EA spaces and so there is likely research that supports or weakens the argument I didn’t come across.
My general impression is that non profits tend to teach skills that are less valuable longer term when globally 90% of jobs are in the private sector, even if the skills are valuable to some extent.
It’s also about who is learning the skills, if the people who would have been the top 5% of entrepreneurs/leaders/scientists are not working in those spaces that seems like a loss for those countries.