Agree. Rejecting the argument because it double counts feels a bit like the “shouldn’t you be attributing some/most of the impact to the people that did the direct work” objection to estimates of how many lives your money can save.
I think everyone knows it’s a counterfactual claim contingent on you actually being a major influence on that person and not karmic accounting that assigns yourself all the credit
That said, it’s still a dubious approximation to say it ‘doubles’ your impact as it really depends on relative donation sizes of the people you persuade. That means it can be much more than double if you earn less than the people that listen to you, of course!
Agree. Rejecting the argument because it double counts feels a bit like the “shouldn’t you be attributing some/most of the impact to the people that did the direct work” objection to estimates of how many lives your money can save.
I think everyone knows it’s a counterfactual claim contingent on you actually being a major influence on that person and not karmic accounting that assigns yourself all the credit
That said, it’s still a dubious approximation to say it ‘doubles’ your impact as it really depends on relative donation sizes of the people you persuade. That means it can be much more than double if you earn less than the people that listen to you, of course!