Great post! I’d be very excited to see somewhere like the Infrastructure Fund funding any of these.
Another point: Generally converting money to time and productivity—affording healthy ready meals, a fast and functional laptop and phone, not needing to stress about meeting rent, being able to get Ubers rather than walking, etc. I think it’s often awkward to ask for money to meet things like this for yourself, but I want anyone doing good community building with to not need to worry about things like this! Or if anyone is doing a part time job to support themselves while doing community building, I’d LOVE for them to be paid for the community building instead, and be able to focus on that more
I think people in EA are often averse to things like this, because that money could be donated instead. But I think this often leads to bad norms around this stuff—if you’re doing high impact work, your time is valuable, and saving time means you can do more good work!
Great post! I’d be very excited to see somewhere like the Infrastructure Fund funding any of these.
Another point: Generally converting money to time and productivity—affording healthy ready meals, a fast and functional laptop and phone, not needing to stress about meeting rent, being able to get Ubers rather than walking, etc. I think it’s often awkward to ask for money to meet things like this for yourself, but I want anyone doing good community building with to not need to worry about things like this! Or if anyone is doing a part time job to support themselves while doing community building, I’d LOVE for them to be paid for the community building instead, and be able to focus on that more
I think people in EA are often averse to things like this, because that money could be donated instead. But I think this often leads to bad norms around this stuff—if you’re doing high impact work, your time is valuable, and saving time means you can do more good work!
Strongly agree, I’ll add a bullet point on this to the post :)