How do you balance your earning to give/​effective giving commitments with your family commitments? (e.g. in my own experience, one’s partner may disapprove of or be stressed out by you giving >=10%, and of course with a mortgage/​kids things get even tougher)
To your last observation, I actually think this has gotten easier over the years. When I was younger I had so much uncertainty about my life/​career trajectory that I found it difficult to understand the marginal value of both spending and saving. What if I save too little and then turn down an opportunity to move abroad as a result? What if I save too much and then my interest in EA turns out to be a youthful fad? What if I need to spend more to network effectively?
It’s not that such uncertainty is totally gone, but in general I expect it does diminish as you get older. Allan Saldanhamade similar observations in his podcast[1].
My partner is independently very on board with EA, so I can’t speak much to challenges there. Our kids don’t know much about it, but as long as we’re appropriately planning for their futures and our retirement there is some sense in which it isn’t much to do with them. I do lean generous/​conservative in later life planning though; given the amount we’ve donated I would really hate to ever end up in a spot where I was leaning on my kids for financial support, even more than I expect most parents would.
Comes up at a few points, but e.g.: I don’t know if I would have taken the pledge right after university—there’s so much more uncertainty now, you don’t have jobs for life like you might have 30-40 years ago.
To your last observation, I actually think this has gotten easier over the years. When I was younger I had so much uncertainty about my life/​career trajectory that I found it difficult to understand the marginal value of both spending and saving. What if I save too little and then turn down an opportunity to move abroad as a result? What if I save too much and then my interest in EA turns out to be a youthful fad? What if I need to spend more to network effectively?
It’s not that such uncertainty is totally gone, but in general I expect it does diminish as you get older. Allan Saldanha made similar observations in his podcast[1].
My partner is independently very on board with EA, so I can’t speak much to challenges there. Our kids don’t know much about it, but as long as we’re appropriately planning for their futures and our retirement there is some sense in which it isn’t much to do with them. I do lean generous/​conservative in later life planning though; given the amount we’ve donated I would really hate to ever end up in a spot where I was leaning on my kids for financial support, even more than I expect most parents would.
Comes up at a few points, but e.g.:
I don’t know if I would have taken the pledge right after university—there’s so much more uncertainty now, you don’t have jobs for life like you might have 30-40 years ago.