There is no need to do public advocacy if you feel this is not something you would enjoy/​be good at. If at a later stage you feel more comfortable talking about effective giving and veganism with others, that’s great. But not mandatory.
If you can just keep donating a part of your income regularly to effective charities, do that. That is probably the most useful thing you can do right now, far more effective than arguing with people on Reddit.
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.
There is no need to do public advocacy if you feel this is not something you would enjoy/​be good at. If at a later stage you feel more comfortable talking about effective giving and veganism with others, that’s great. But not mandatory.
If you can just keep donating a part of your income regularly to effective charities, do that. That is probably the most useful thing you can do right now, far more effective than arguing with people on Reddit.
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.