Iām disproportionately drawn to people who demonstrate their radical empathy both with their lifestyle and their actions/āgiving. These arenāt all strictly EAs and 2 of them arenāt alive any more...
1) EAs who donāt earn huge amounts and give lots away. I especially respect when people set caps on how much they keep from their salariesāso much discipline required. @Vasco Grilošø@Henry Howard, the Wisesā¦ Ages ago I was drawn to @William_MacAskill doing this, but Iām not sure if thatās still a practice of his? And all the hundreds of you out there I donāt know of!
2) Dr. Edrick Baker who ran perhaps the most cost-effective hospital of the 20th century. He trained poorly educated local people to do most of the medical work at the hospital. Great and unappreciated biography about him here.
3) The founders of Wave and Humantix. Growing profit-making businesses which either directly help people, or to give the money away is no joke and I have huge respect for this.
4) (Top of mind from the book āHow Asia Worksā) Wolf Ladejinsky, who advised the land reform of Japan and Taiwan, which redistributed landlordās land to individual farmers, massively increasing productivity and setting up their industrial revolutionsābefore the USA accused him of being a communist :(. Seemed like a dude!
5) Bill Gates (to break the mold). Yeah he lives a bit like a Diva but billionaires donāt usually give all their money away, and heās doing it pretty darn well.
Iām disproportionately drawn to people who demonstrate their radical empathy both with their lifestyle and their actions/āgiving. These arenāt all strictly EAs and 2 of them arenāt alive any more...
1) EAs who donāt earn huge amounts and give lots away. I especially respect when people set caps on how much they keep from their salariesāso much discipline required. @Vasco Grilošø @Henry Howard, the Wisesā¦ Ages ago I was drawn to @William_MacAskill doing this, but Iām not sure if thatās still a practice of his? And all the hundreds of you out there I donāt know of!
2) Dr. Edrick Baker who ran perhaps the most cost-effective hospital of the 20th century. He trained poorly educated local people to do most of the medical work at the hospital. Great and unappreciated biography about him here.
3) The founders of Wave and Humantix. Growing profit-making businesses which either directly help people, or to give the money away is no joke and I have huge respect for this.
4) (Top of mind from the book āHow Asia Worksā) Wolf Ladejinsky, who advised the land reform of Japan and Taiwan, which redistributed landlordās land to individual farmers, massively increasing productivity and setting up their industrial revolutionsābefore the USA accused him of being a communist :(. Seemed like a dude!
5) Bill Gates (to break the mold). Yeah he lives a bit like a Diva but billionaires donāt usually give all their money away, and heās doing it pretty darn well.
Thanks for the mention, Nick! I appreciate your contributions, and pushback on some of my points too.