I strongly agree with the premise of this post and really like the analysis, but feel unhappy with the strong focus on physical products. I think we should instead think about a broader set of scalable ways to usefully spend money, including but not limited to physical products. E.g. scholarships aren’t a physical product, but large scholarship programs could plausibly scale to >$100 million.
(Perhaps this has been said already; I haven’t bothered reading all the comments.)
I strongly agree with the premise of this post and really like the analysis, but feel unhappy with the strong focus on physical products. I think we should instead think about a broader set of scalable ways to usefully spend money, including but not limited to physical products. E.g. scholarships aren’t a physical product, but large scholarship programs could plausibly scale to >$100 million.
(Perhaps this has been said already; I haven’t bothered reading all the comments.)
Yes, it has been pointed out; cf.:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Kwj6TENxsNhgSzwvD/most-research-advocacy-charities-are-not-scalable?commentId=mdDxjftDfeZX2AQoZ
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Kwj6TENxsNhgSzwvD/most-research-advocacy-charities-are-not-scalable?commentId=xpwxjvimgQe84gcs4