One perhaps opposite concern I have about this: having lots of money dispersed by grantmakers means you’re less like a market economy, and more like a communist economy (except rich, and the central planners are just giving you cash). But this is bad, because it’s better to live in a market economy—you have a healthier relationship to your money because you earned it (as opposed to “well I guess I just asked for this money and now I have it so I hope I’m not squandering it in someone else’s eyes”), and the constraints you feel in seem more real rather than “why aren’t the money fairies giving me stuff”.
One perhaps opposite concern I have about this: having lots of money dispersed by grantmakers means you’re less like a market economy, and more like a communist economy (except rich, and the central planners are just giving you cash). But this is bad, because it’s better to live in a market economy—you have a healthier relationship to your money because you earned it (as opposed to “well I guess I just asked for this money and now I have it so I hope I’m not squandering it in someone else’s eyes”), and the constraints you feel in seem more real rather than “why aren’t the money fairies giving me stuff”.