someone in the top 10% ($20k/year) and someone in the top 1% (>$60k/year) have very different abilities to donate
I mean, I agree with this, but also, I was able to donate 10% after tax when I was making around $14k/year working minimum wage. At the time I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and shared a not-great apartment with 2 other people, though I did have my own bedroom.
Asking the question, “how much money did you donate”, with no room for context, doesn’t seem like a great interview question to me — I would think it would be much more interesting to ask, “how do you decide how much to donate” or similar. My main disagreement, though, is with the idea that there are very many people applying to rich-country white-collar jobs who are simply not “able to donate”.
I mean, I agree with this, but also, I was able to donate 10% after tax when I was making around $14k/year working minimum wage. At the time I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and shared a not-great apartment with 2 other people, though I did have my own bedroom.
Asking the question, “how much money did you donate”, with no room for context, doesn’t seem like a great interview question to me — I would think it would be much more interesting to ask, “how do you decide how much to donate” or similar. My main disagreement, though, is with the idea that there are very many people applying to rich-country white-collar jobs who are simply not “able to donate”.