I would also add that this article generally suggests that trade-offs when donating money are unique to EA.
Eg -
“EA rewards alliance with its worldviews and penalises nonprofits who have different views”
This is true for all individual donors and all philanthropic philosophies. Chorus Foundation rewards organisations led by Americans working on climate change and “penalises” organisations in the poorest countries working on malaria. Rewarding alliance with your worldview is not inherently bad—all donors have finite money and “penalise” some nonprofits when they donate to other nonprofits.
(As an ethnic minority westerner, but as an internationalist, I do not think that the lives of ethnic minority westerners matter more than those of worse off people in the global south, so I disagree with Chorus’s worldview of focusing on the USA, but don’t think it’s wrong for them to donate in line with their worldview).
I would also add that this article generally suggests that trade-offs when donating money are unique to EA.
Eg -
“EA rewards alliance with its worldviews and penalises nonprofits who have different views”
This is true for all individual donors and all philanthropic philosophies. Chorus Foundation rewards organisations led by Americans working on climate change and “penalises” organisations in the poorest countries working on malaria. Rewarding alliance with your worldview is not inherently bad—all donors have finite money and “penalise” some nonprofits when they donate to other nonprofits.
(As an ethnic minority westerner, but as an internationalist, I do not think that the lives of ethnic minority westerners matter more than those of worse off people in the global south, so I disagree with Chorus’s worldview of focusing on the USA, but don’t think it’s wrong for them to donate in line with their worldview).