I think 80,000 Hours and related organizations like the Centre for Effective Altruism and Open Philanthropy, at least starting in recent years, actually find community-building very valuable, for some of the same reasons that you’ve mentioned. It’s possible that in the context of this post, community-building was just subsumed in the word “career” but not called out explicitly.
A counterargument is that 80,000 Hours alienates a broader portion of the population that would be essential for movement building. That 80,000 Hours is geared towards only a certain well-educated portion of the population is a [known problem](https://80000hours.org/2020/04/which-programmes-within-ea/) that hopefully will be resolved soon.
Thanks for sharing those links. I’d like to check them out. Right now I have a lot of other work to do. My reply is therefore limited. I wanted to share my current line of thinking when I wrote, “I think this could be a fundamental flaw in thinking across the EA community and 80,000 Hours...”. Since you’ve read more on the topic, I’d agree that the intention to promote community building is indeed there.
I think 80,000 Hours and related organizations like the Centre for Effective Altruism and Open Philanthropy, at least starting in recent years, actually find community-building very valuable, for some of the same reasons that you’ve mentioned. It’s possible that in the context of this post, community-building was just subsumed in the word “career” but not called out explicitly.
Some relevant links:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/building-effective-altruism-1
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FjDpyJNnzK8teSu4J/a-huge-opportunity-for-impact-movement-building-at-top-2
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/promoting-effective-altruism/
A counterargument is that 80,000 Hours alienates a broader portion of the population that would be essential for movement building. That 80,000 Hours is geared towards only a certain well-educated portion of the population is a [known problem](https://80000hours.org/2020/04/which-programmes-within-ea/) that hopefully will be resolved soon.
Thanks for sharing those links. I’d like to check them out. Right now I have a lot of other work to do. My reply is therefore limited. I wanted to share my current line of thinking when I wrote, “I think this could be a fundamental flaw in thinking across the EA community and 80,000 Hours...”. Since you’ve read more on the topic, I’d agree that the intention to promote community building is indeed there.