“Max is a researcher working on invertebrate sentience and suffering who was living in Vancouver. He has recently worked with Rethink Priorities on this subject and has been successful in getting funding from the EA community for his research. Max also started working part-time for Animal Ethics as of September 2019. … Max suspects that he would have ran out of money to pay rent if not for the Hotel”
Was Max working for these organisations the whole time and they just don’t pay people enough to make rent? Or were these seperate gigs with gaps in between, and the gaps are what threatened his financial security?
I’d prefer charities to pay their staff a living wage rather than the Hotel subsidise living costs.
To be clear, Rethink Priorities pays good salaries that are more than enough to make rent. Those of our employees who live at the EA Hotel pay cost price and are not subsidized by the Hotel.
I came to the hotel as I was finishing a contract for Rethink Prioritites, worked for them there for one month, then did indepenent research. Now I am employed at an EA org again, and I am paying cost price.
“Max is a researcher working on invertebrate sentience and suffering who was living in Vancouver. He has recently worked with Rethink Priorities on this subject and has been successful in getting funding from the EA community for his research. Max also started working part-time for Animal Ethics as of September 2019. … Max suspects that he would have ran out of money to pay rent if not for the Hotel”
Was Max working for these organisations the whole time and they just don’t pay people enough to make rent? Or were these seperate gigs with gaps in between, and the gaps are what threatened his financial security?
I’d prefer charities to pay their staff a living wage rather than the Hotel subsidise living costs.
To be clear, Rethink Priorities pays good salaries that are more than enough to make rent. Those of our employees who live at the EA Hotel pay cost price and are not subsidized by the Hotel.
I came to the hotel as I was finishing a contract for Rethink Prioritites, worked for them there for one month, then did indepenent research. Now I am employed at an EA org again, and I am paying cost price.
Thanks Max for being willing to talk about your finances online. I know that’s a sensitive topic.