I’ve been thinking about this issue recently too. I think it’s pretty clear in the case of Warren Buffet and other ultra-wealthy.
Generally, I think EAs sort of live and breath this stuff, and billionaires/major donors are typically in a completely different world, and they generally barely care about it.
I’ve been asking around about efforts to get more rich donors. I think Longview is often heralded as the biggest bet now, though of course it’s limited in size. My guess is that there should be much more work done here—though at the same time—I think that this sort of work is quite difficult, thankless, risky (very likely to deliver no results), is often a big culture clash, etc.
Like, we need to allocate promising people to spend huge amounts of time with a lot of mostly-apathetic and highly selfish (vs. what we are used to around EA) people, with a high likelihood of seeing no results after 5-30 years.
I’ve been thinking about this issue recently too. I think it’s pretty clear in the case of Warren Buffet and other ultra-wealthy.
Generally, I think EAs sort of live and breath this stuff, and billionaires/major donors are typically in a completely different world, and they generally barely care about it.
I’ve been asking around about efforts to get more rich donors. I think Longview is often heralded as the biggest bet now, though of course it’s limited in size. My guess is that there should be much more work done here—though at the same time—I think that this sort of work is quite difficult, thankless, risky (very likely to deliver no results), is often a big culture clash, etc.
Like, we need to allocate promising people to spend huge amounts of time with a lot of mostly-apathetic and highly selfish (vs. what we are used to around EA) people, with a high likelihood of seeing no results after 5-30 years.
I think this is in the vein of what Jack Lewars is doing?
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ultraphilanthropy/
Could be!
I assume the space is big enough, it could another absorb 20-60 people plus.
I’ve also heard of some other high network projects coming from Charity Entrepreneurship, but I haven’t investigated.