I suppose, though it’s a bit unclear to me whether people actually read “big social impact” as “big in absolute terms” or “big compared to my capabilities” or “big compared to what people normally do”. What natural term do you think might be better?
In this case, I imagine the title could have been something like, ‘how to optimize your social impact if you live in a poor country’, or just ‘the best ways to do good in a poor country’.
I suppose, though it’s a bit unclear to me whether people actually read “big social impact” as “big in absolute terms” or “big compared to my capabilities” or “big compared to what people normally do”. What natural term do you think might be better?
In this case, I imagine the title could have been something like, ‘how to optimize your social impact if you live in a poor country’, or just ‘the best ways to do good in a poor country’.
I’ve always read it as ‘big’ relative to what you would have done otherwise, or might have previously thought was possible.