I’m not involved with the animal rights movement outside of its intersection with effective altruism, so I don’t know much about it. However, among other things, I’d think the evaluators at ACE are involved with the AR movement, and would come out and said at there EAG talks that the community is just as, if not more, constrained by lack of volunteers than lack of funds. They didn’t prioritize raising awareness of a greater volunteer need than a greater funding need. Of course, they were optimizing for an effective altruism audience. So, maybe the most the average effective altruist can do, one who has or will have a career which is not primarily low-paid or volunteer work for animal liberation, and who is already planning on earning to give or whatever, is donate to, e.g., ACE’s top recommended charities. That’s not necessarily an argument for the rest of the AR movement as it exists, or anyone new who joins it, to mostly go earning to give, rather than volunteering.
My thinking was that (and show me the holes in this—it may affect major life decisions!)
+1 to this sentiment. I too would like to know if I’m ignorant or wrong about the future or present status of the animal rights movement.
I’m not involved with the animal rights movement outside of its intersection with effective altruism, so I don’t know much about it. However, among other things, I’d think the evaluators at ACE are involved with the AR movement, and would come out and said at there EAG talks that the community is just as, if not more, constrained by lack of volunteers than lack of funds. They didn’t prioritize raising awareness of a greater volunteer need than a greater funding need. Of course, they were optimizing for an effective altruism audience. So, maybe the most the average effective altruist can do, one who has or will have a career which is not primarily low-paid or volunteer work for animal liberation, and who is already planning on earning to give or whatever, is donate to, e.g., ACE’s top recommended charities. That’s not necessarily an argument for the rest of the AR movement as it exists, or anyone new who joins it, to mostly go earning to give, rather than volunteering.
+1 to this sentiment. I too would like to know if I’m ignorant or wrong about the future or present status of the animal rights movement.