Earning to give is not a good description for what I do because I’m not optimising across career paths for high pay for donations—more like the highest pay I can get for a 9-5.
I think of it more as “Self-funded community builder”
On cross pollination, yeah I think we agree. The self sorting between cause areas based on intuition and instinct isn’t great though—it means that there are opportunities to innovate that are missed in both camps.
I agree donations and switching careers are really important! However—I think those shouldn’t be the only ways.
Having your job be EA makes it difficult to be independent—livelihoods rely on this and so it makes EA as a whole less robust IMO. I like the Tour of Service model https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/waeDDnaQBTCNNu7hq/ea-tours-of-service
Earning to give is not a good description for what I do because I’m not optimising across career paths for high pay for donations—more like the highest pay I can get for a 9-5.
I think of it more as “Self-funded community builder”
On cross pollination, yeah I think we agree. The self sorting between cause areas based on intuition and instinct isn’t great though—it means that there are opportunities to innovate that are missed in both camps.