While both are rich by global standards, someone in the top 10% ($20k/year) and someone in the top 1% (>$60k/year) have very different abilities to donate.
This becomes even more noticeable as relatively less rich people also often have to support their families, pay off debts, and can’t rely on a future inheritance.
ETA: One org used to ask something like: “if you earned $50k, how much would you donate and why?” which imho mitigates this (although not perfectly)
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”.
While both are rich by global standards, someone in the top 10% ($20k/year) and someone in the top 1% (>$60k/year) have very different abilities to donate.
This becomes even more noticeable as relatively less rich people also often have to support their families, pay off debts, and can’t rely on a future inheritance.
ETA: One org used to ask something like: “if you earned $50k, how much would you donate and why?” which imho mitigates this (although not perfectly)
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”.