Yeah tbh I feel Reddit is an echochamber so its effectively useless.
Tbh, Im mainly afraid of talking about it publicly on say social media because I feel like it would have bigger ramifications in my personal life. First, I don’t want to make it my whole personality (kind of like I see people that make veganism or some sort of partisan politics their whole channel and personality) but second I feel it can be kind of uncomfortable in terms of consequences. In particular, I genuinely feel like EA would have more traction if it distanced itself from the concept of pledging 10% because most people I feel like donate between $30-50$ per month not like thousands of dollars in a year.
I haven’t donated in a while though since Im starting and building my career but I feel like once Ive saved up, I might start donating more (though I don’t think 10% will ever be a good idea), and once I do that I might start talking about it if and only if I feel enthusiastic about it and not feel like I am obligated to do so.
Thank you for telling me its not a moral obligation.
In particular, I genuinely feel like EA would have more traction if it distanced itself from the concept of pledging 10% because most people I feel like donate between $30-50$ per month not like thousands of dollars in a year.
For the population that is interested in giving a few hundred dollars a year, I suspect that individual-charity efforts without the EA branding or intellectual/other overhead are going to be more effective. So I don’t think there is an either/or here; one can run both sorts of asks without too much interference between the two.
Yeah tbh I feel Reddit is an echochamber so its effectively useless.
Tbh, Im mainly afraid of talking about it publicly on say social media because I feel like it would have bigger ramifications in my personal life. First, I don’t want to make it my whole personality (kind of like I see people that make veganism or some sort of partisan politics their whole channel and personality) but second I feel it can be kind of uncomfortable in terms of consequences. In particular, I genuinely feel like EA would have more traction if it distanced itself from the concept of pledging 10% because most people I feel like donate between $30-50$ per month not like thousands of dollars in a year.
I haven’t donated in a while though since Im starting and building my career but I feel like once Ive saved up, I might start donating more (though I don’t think 10% will ever be a good idea), and once I do that I might start talking about it if and only if I feel enthusiastic about it and not feel like I am obligated to do so.
Thank you for telling me its not a moral obligation.
For the population that is interested in giving a few hundred dollars a year, I suspect that individual-charity efforts without the EA branding or intellectual/other overhead are going to be more effective. So I don’t think there is an either/or here; one can run both sorts of asks without too much interference between the two.