To make philanthropy obsolete, I think you’d have to either make advocacy obsolete or be able to capture it effectively without philanthropy. As long as sentient individuals have competing values and interests and tradeoffs to be made, which I’d still expect to be true even if nonhuman animals, future individuals and artificial sentiences gain rights and representation, I think there will be a need for advocacy. I don’t expect ethical views to converge in the future, and as long as they don’t, there should be room for advocacy.
To make philanthropy obsolete, I think you’d have to either make advocacy obsolete or be able to capture it effectively without philanthropy. As long as sentient individuals have competing values and interests and tradeoffs to be made, which I’d still expect to be true even if nonhuman animals, future individuals and artificial sentiences gain rights and representation, I think there will be a need for advocacy. I don’t expect ethical views to converge in the future, and as long as they don’t, there should be room for advocacy.