To what extent are people voting in a manner that is consistent / not consistent with their past or intended future personal donations? I notice that my current ranking doesn’t really align with the last time I handed out donations of my own money (end of 2023, for tax reasons). Some of that may reflect changed priorities and development over the past year, but I doubt all of it does.
To the extent that some of us have different impulses when handing out my own money versus (largely) other people’s money, how might we disentangle the extent to which each set of impulses is correct? (For a third data point, my votes in the Equal Hands pilot have been somewhere between these two.)
I think the difference may largely come down to psychological factors, such as:
I am probably more conservative with my own donations than in voting for where to send pooled donations.
I sometimes want to give most people at least half a loaf, and this tendency feels more realizable when spending other people’s money because I am thinking more at a group level. In contrast, I don’t have enough in the pot to give a meaningful amount of money to a dozen different orgs, and still have most of my money for those I think most important to fund.
Some of the difference in votes vs. personal donations comes from the tax deductible status of donations. Donations to (for example) Arthropoda are only tax-deductible in the USA, meaning that many potential donors living in other countries might donate elsewhere. In a donor lottery this is no longer a concern.
Other factors like currency conversion fees when donating to charities that only take donations in dollars may have similar effects.
To what extent are people voting in a manner that is consistent / not consistent with their past or intended future personal donations? I notice that my current ranking doesn’t really align with the last time I handed out donations of my own money (end of 2023, for tax reasons). Some of that may reflect changed priorities and development over the past year, but I doubt all of it does.
To the extent that some of us have different impulses when handing out my own money versus (largely) other people’s money, how might we disentangle the extent to which each set of impulses is correct? (For a third data point, my votes in the Equal Hands pilot have been somewhere between these two.)
I think the difference may largely come down to psychological factors, such as:
I am probably more conservative with my own donations than in voting for where to send pooled donations.
I sometimes want to give most people at least half a loaf, and this tendency feels more realizable when spending other people’s money because I am thinking more at a group level. In contrast, I don’t have enough in the pot to give a meaningful amount of money to a dozen different orgs, and still have most of my money for those I think most important to fund.
Some of the difference in votes vs. personal donations comes from the tax deductible status of donations. Donations to (for example) Arthropoda are only tax-deductible in the USA, meaning that many potential donors living in other countries might donate elsewhere. In a donor lottery this is no longer a concern.
Other factors like currency conversion fees when donating to charities that only take donations in dollars may have similar effects.