Investing to give more later can definitely be a reasonable strategy, depending on many things. There’s a whole forum topic with 10 years of posts on the timing of philanthropy.
Re: animals, I think by donating to animal charities the power transfer would be from you to the organizations you would be supporting, and by investing the power transfer would be to your future self.
But I think this model is too zero-sum. I think the overall influence of animal rights proponents can increase as a consequence of better allocation of capital between the different actors. Similarly, by investing the extra influence of your future self could be greater than the reduced influence of your present self, depending on your returns.
Investing to give more later can definitely be a reasonable strategy, depending on many things. There’s a whole forum topic with 10 years of posts on the timing of philanthropy.
Re: animals, I think by donating to animal charities the power transfer would be from you to the organizations you would be supporting, and by investing the power transfer would be to your future self.
But I think this model is too zero-sum. I think the overall influence of animal rights proponents can increase as a consequence of better allocation of capital between the different actors. Similarly, by investing the extra influence of your future self could be greater than the reduced influence of your present self, depending on your returns.