I think “aimed at people with low COL, and we accept that this is prohibitive for many people, including most Americans living in cities and people with dependents” is a pretty reasonable policy. I don’t know if it’s optimal, but CE has much more information and I defer to them on the trade-offs. I do wish that was said explicitly instead of obfuscated, given that ~1/3 of EAF is in the US, presumably more in other HCOL countries, and having kids is not that weird.
(I do think something is off about norming founder salaries against general-non-profit salaries, since founding is so much harder, but someone did say salaries often went up after the first year so that may not matter much).
I think “aimed at people with low COL, and we accept that this is prohibitive for many people, including most Americans living in cities and people with dependents” is a pretty reasonable policy. I don’t know if it’s optimal, but CE has much more information and I defer to them on the trade-offs. I do wish that was said explicitly instead of obfuscated, given that ~1/3 of EAF is in the US, presumably more in other HCOL countries, and having kids is not that weird.
(I do think something is off about norming founder salaries against general-non-profit salaries, since founding is so much harder, but someone did say salaries often went up after the first year so that may not matter much).