Do you know if thereās empirical data on this? Like Owen, I think these are relatively minor risks.
Unsurprisingly, the people I know who donate the most are the ones who earn the most (although they probably donāt give particularly effectively), and I know people with experience in non-profits who were disillusioned and moved back to ānormalā jobs. I could also imagine NGO workers might have strong incentives to work for a āWhite Landcruiserā NGO ā ā ā ā ā ā ā and be less focused on actually helping others. Basically, Iām not sure if the value drift is actually that much higher for an earn-to-giver compared to a worker at a median NGO. (Because itās high in both cases and because most NGOs are not particularly impact-driven)
Iām also not sure how much of an issue lifestyle creep is in practice. If you earn twice as much, and spend twice as much on yourself because of lifestyle creep, youāre still donating twice as much as before. And empirically, we see higher-income people give higher percentages of their incomes.
Also, there are very significant ācareer capitalā benefits of working in a high-paying job before moving into a direct role, some of which are highlighted in this recent post. The founders of the Against Malaria Foundation had lots of for-profit experience that I think probably helped them save so many lives when they switched to non-profit work. (Incidentally, it seems that Rob Mather has an MBA from Harvard itself)
Do you know if thereās empirical data on this? Like Owen, I think these are relatively minor risks.
Unsurprisingly, the people I know who donate the most are the ones who earn the most (although they probably donāt give particularly effectively), and I know people with experience in non-profits who were disillusioned and moved back to ānormalā jobs.
I could also imagine NGO workers might have strong incentives to work for a āWhite Landcruiserā NGO ā ā ā ā ā ā ā and be less focused on actually helping others. Basically, Iām not sure if the value drift is actually that much higher for an earn-to-giver compared to a worker at a median NGO. (Because itās high in both cases and because most NGOs are not particularly impact-driven)
Iām also not sure how much of an issue lifestyle creep is in practice. If you earn twice as much, and spend twice as much on yourself because of lifestyle creep, youāre still donating twice as much as before. And empirically, we see higher-income people give higher percentages of their incomes.
Also, there are very significant ācareer capitalā benefits of working in a high-paying job before moving into a direct role, some of which are highlighted in this recent post. The founders of the Against Malaria Foundation had lots of for-profit experience that I think probably helped them save so many lives when they switched to non-profit work. (Incidentally, it seems that Rob Mather has an MBA from Harvard itself)
Thatās all much better analyzed in the new 80000hours page on Earning to Give though, which makes many more points for and against