The norm around donating 10% is one of the places where EA has constructed a sort of “safe harbour,” sending a message at least somewhat like as long as you give 10%, and under certain circumstances less, you should feel good about yourself as an EA / feel supported / etc. In other words, the community ethos implicitly discourages feeling guilty about “only” donating 10 percent.
I’m not as convinced we have established and effectively communicate that kind of safe harbour around certain other personal decisions, like career decisions. Thus, I don’t know if the soft 10 percent norm is representative of norms and pressures relating to demandingness.
To be fair, it’s easier to construct a safe harbour around money than around something like career decisions because we don’t have ten careers to allocate.
The norm around donating 10% is one of the places where EA has constructed a sort of “safe harbour,” sending a message at least somewhat like as long as you give 10%, and under certain circumstances less, you should feel good about yourself as an EA / feel supported / etc. In other words, the community ethos implicitly discourages feeling guilty about “only” donating 10 percent.
I’m not as convinced we have established and effectively communicate that kind of safe harbour around certain other personal decisions, like career decisions. Thus, I don’t know if the soft 10 percent norm is representative of norms and pressures relating to demandingness.
To be fair, it’s easier to construct a safe harbour around money than around something like career decisions because we don’t have ten careers to allocate.