For what it’s worth, I’m not sure how much of the EA London community Dan managed to capture, but I think there’s something in this. I do think some people leave EA, not because they think the logic is wrong or anything, but because they can’t see themselves as the Earning-to-Give hero in a story with such excessive wealth inequality. It’s not the kind of impact they’re okay with having, not the kind of person they want to be.
I doubt there’s a good way of manipulating EA culture to present the variety of visions people would need to jump on board. I suspect it will take a decent amount of time for EA to mature and develop before there are the multiplicity of alive paths that will attract a greater number of people.
For what it’s worth, I’m not sure how much of the EA London community Dan managed to capture, but I think there’s something in this. I do think some people leave EA, not because they think the logic is wrong or anything, but because they can’t see themselves as the Earning-to-Give hero in a story with such excessive wealth inequality. It’s not the kind of impact they’re okay with having, not the kind of person they want to be.
Since I just listened to it I can’t help but see parallels to Mauricio Miller describing the certain visions the poor need to latch onto in order to be lifted from poverty: http://www.econtalk.org/mauricio-miller-on-poverty-social-work-and-the-alternative/
I doubt there’s a good way of manipulating EA culture to present the variety of visions people would need to jump on board. I suspect it will take a decent amount of time for EA to mature and develop before there are the multiplicity of alive paths that will attract a greater number of people.