Would it be better to assume organisations are indifferent between having a person work for them, and receiving what they would pay the person? I think so. It corresponds to the organisations’ revealed preferences, and I believe these are more reliable than their stated preferences. Organisations wanting to maximise their own impact (at the expense of global impact) have an incentive to overestimate the money they would have to receive to be happy to let the person go because they know the person could then donate to many other organisations.
Hi Yonatan,
Would it be better to assume organisations are indifferent between having a person work for them, and receiving what they would pay the person? I think so. It corresponds to the organisations’ revealed preferences, and I believe these are more reliable than their stated preferences. Organisations wanting to maximise their own impact (at the expense of global impact) have an incentive to overestimate the money they would have to receive to be happy to let the person go because they know the person could then donate to many other organisations.