I’m curious if there might be a more subtle reason low income gets in the way of EA catching on in Spanish-speaking countries than just “don’t have much money to give.” Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir’s Scarcity explains that people under resource constraints make very different choices, and I think one of those choices is likely to be an inability to evaluate choices from the universalistic perspective EA demands.
I’m curious if there might be a more subtle reason low income gets in the way of EA catching on in Spanish-speaking countries than just “don’t have much money to give.” Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir’s Scarcity explains that people under resource constraints make very different choices, and I think one of those choices is likely to be an inability to evaluate choices from the universalistic perspective EA demands.