Wow, this back-of-the-envelope has really brought home to me how “EA should diversify its funding sources!” is not as straightforward as it first appears:
1 billionaire ~= 5,000 Google SWE earning to give 30% of their income, and that’s more people than the entire community.
Similarly for “EA should diversify its public faces!”:
I’m aware of several attempts to get more people to become faces of EA, but they’ve ended up not wanting to do it (which I sympathise with having witnessed recent events), and even if they wanted to do it, it’s unclear they could be successful enough to move the needle on the perceptions of EA.
Yes, donations are also quite heavy-tailed within GWWC Pledges. From here:
Less than 1% of our donors account for 50% of our recorded donations. This amounts to dozens of people, while the next 40% of donations (from both pledge donors and non-pledge donors) is distributed among hundreds. This suggests that most of our impact comes from a small-to-medium-size group of large donors (rather than from a very small group of very large donors, or from a large group of small donors).[6]
Wow, this back-of-the-envelope has really brought home to me how “EA should diversify its funding sources!” is not as straightforward as it first appears:
Similarly for “EA should diversify its public faces!”:
I’m surprised people don’t talk about this more.
Hi there,
Yes, donations are also quite heavy-tailed within GWWC Pledges. From here: