You should consider that living in such conditions will likely lead to burnout.
Altruism is a marathon not a sprint. You should focus on having a high impact over your whole career, which will involve not pushing yourself literally as hard as possible all the time. You are only human, regardless of what your ethics say.
That said, there are cases of people living somewhat as you describe and giving a lot of money away—see here
(Couldn’t click on your linked comment from mobile, so here it is in case it helps others. Oliver Yeung’s backstory is striking, thanks for sharing the links to his main talk and Q&A)
You should consider that living in such conditions will likely lead to burnout.
Altruism is a marathon not a sprint. You should focus on having a high impact over your whole career, which will involve not pushing yourself literally as hard as possible all the time. You are only human, regardless of what your ethics say.
That said, there are cases of people living somewhat as you describe and giving a lot of money away—see here
There is also this (publicly listed) talk from 2022:
In addition, Chuck Feeney, Zell Kravinsky, and from antiquity, Diogenes
Also Charles Gray of the “world equity budget.”
Thank you.
(Couldn’t click on your linked comment from mobile, so here it is in case it helps others. Oliver Yeung’s backstory is striking, thanks for sharing the links to his main talk and Q&A)
Edited, thank you!
Thank you, this was helpful to read and although I disagree, I do see your points about how this will probably lead to burnout.