A post making the case for donating now rather than later.
Patient philanthropy (donating later) has been gaining ground within the EA community. While there’s been some critical discussion, there hasn’t been a post making the positive case for why to donate now since the very early days of EA.
At the suggestion of this question post, I’ll offer that I’ll pay $200 for a good post in this direction. Caveated with the fact that I think most of the value comes from a very good post in this direction, so my bar will be pretty high.
This post probably qualifies, but I didn’t love it. I’d pay out if you wrote a good one. But see note about my bar being high, I definitely don’t want to make promises.
I’m not aware of anything recent that was explicitly pro-”give now”. There are some semi-recent posts that weigh both sides of the debate but draw “it depends”-type conclusions. I’d be interested to see your take!
A post making the case for donating now rather than later.
Patient philanthropy (donating later) has been gaining ground within the EA community. While there’s been some critical discussion, there hasn’t been a post making the positive case for why to donate now since the very early days of EA.
At the suggestion of this question post, I’ll offer that I’ll pay $200 for a good post in this direction. Caveated with the fact that I think most of the value comes from a very good post in this direction, so my bar will be pretty high.
Has anyone done this yet? If so I’d be interested in the article, otherwise I’d be interested in giving it a go
This post probably qualifies, but I didn’t love it. I’d pay out if you wrote a good one. But see note about my bar being high, I definitely don’t want to make promises.
I’m not aware of anything recent that was explicitly pro-”give now”. There are some semi-recent posts that weigh both sides of the debate but draw “it depends”-type conclusions. I’d be interested to see your take!
You can see posts on this topic collected in the “timing of philanthropy” tag.