Back when I was involved with party politics, I heard someone mention that pensioners with basically unlimited free time were a really major asset for the campaigns of the older and more established parties.
I can’t find it right now, but Leah Libresco posted on Unequally Yoked lately about how she hypothesizes that her life would be richer from having a larger demographic catchment as part of her regular social life/circle. In between that, your above comment, and the idea that ‘life experience’ can be tabooed as ‘epic procedural knowledge gaps between you and your elders’, I’m pondering “why aren’t we getting more of the older generations to join effective altruism??”.
I don’t actually want effective altruism to have an implicit ageism bias, and if it does, I hope this thread results is some proposals for resolving it.
I think old people just have more resources than young people, so they give less as a proportion of their resources.
Alternatively, you might think old people have had a lot of time to develop commitments to various causes, and so feel obligated to give more.
Back when I was involved with party politics, I heard someone mention that pensioners with basically unlimited free time were a really major asset for the campaigns of the older and more established parties.
I can’t find it right now, but Leah Libresco posted on Unequally Yoked lately about how she hypothesizes that her life would be richer from having a larger demographic catchment as part of her regular social life/circle. In between that, your above comment, and the idea that ‘life experience’ can be tabooed as ‘epic procedural knowledge gaps between you and your elders’, I’m pondering “why aren’t we getting more of the older generations to join effective altruism??”.
I don’t actually want effective altruism to have an implicit ageism bias, and if it does, I hope this thread results is some proposals for resolving it.