Well then I don’t see this as substantially different than typical cases of people spending less than maximum amounts of money on effective charities; whether it’s material goods or suboptimal charities is not a dichotomy which bothers me. Normally I talk about establishing greater total optimal contributions, and if you’ve deliberately set up a counterfactual to preclude it then I suppose it’s not a discussion that you’re keen to have.
Well then I don’t see this as substantially different than typical cases of people spending less than maximum amounts of money on effective charities; whether it’s material goods or suboptimal charities is not a dichotomy which bothers me. Normally I talk about establishing greater total optimal contributions, and if you’ve deliberately set up a counterfactual to preclude it then I suppose it’s not a discussion that you’re keen to have.