For the record, I think the $45,500 donations figure is a significant overestimate, even just considering the donations I’d have counterfactually made given the limited amount of time I spent on fundraising this year—indeed based on those I know that it is. (I’d ask people to just trust that I’m most aware of the factors behind my estimates for my donations.)
One thing which I guess we can spell out since people are wondering how much we’d donate is that this figure has Joey and Xio donating everything above $6,000 (£3,157) a year each, post-tax. And it has me donating much more than I actually would, as my earnings in this limited time wouldn’t push me over my theshold for donating everything as opposed to giving 10%. As it happens we think Charity Science is the best donation opportunity that we know of, so we’d donate to it.
I also think that a 1:6 ratio, let alone a 1:3 one, is misleadingly low.
For the record, I think the $45,500 donations figure is a significant overestimate, even just considering the donations I’d have counterfactually made given the limited amount of time I spent on fundraising this year—indeed based on those I know that it is. (I’d ask people to just trust that I’m most aware of the factors behind my estimates for my donations.)
One thing which I guess we can spell out since people are wondering how much we’d donate is that this figure has Joey and Xio donating everything above $6,000 (£3,157) a year each, post-tax. And it has me donating much more than I actually would, as my earnings in this limited time wouldn’t push me over my theshold for donating everything as opposed to giving 10%. As it happens we think Charity Science is the best donation opportunity that we know of, so we’d donate to it.
I also think that a 1:6 ratio, let alone a 1:3 one, is misleadingly low.