One thing I didn’t expand on in that thread is some uncertainty I have around ‘You think your sacrificed money is best spent on the non-profit you are working for’.
Right now my charity is definitely not that cost-effective, but I’m confident it will be one day. In my head, saving money for this charity is the best way to spend that money, but not the most cost-effective today.
I don’t nearly have the arrogance to believe that my charity is going to be the most cost-effective giving opportunity of all time, so donating 100% of my sacrificed earnings to this charity probably goes against the spirit of the pledge. On the other hand, it does feel like something would be lost by not incentivising people to make this kind of sacrifice in their careers.
(But ultimately I don’t care much for the status of a pledge or whatever, because I know I’m doing the right thing here)
For these reasons I haven’t considered my sacrifice as a GWWC pledge so far, but I’m uncertain about it.
GWWC doesn’t need your giving to be “the most cost-effective… of all time” so I think your sacrificed earnings is well within the spirit of the pledge. I’m interested so many people disagree with @Neel Nanda here on that front as well!
If your non profit will eventually be extremely cost effective, and donations now help it reach that point, then that would make donations now highly cost effective. Of course, you’re likely positively biased in favour of your non profit, so could easily be wrong in this assessment, but I am generally pro people making high conviction altruistic bets with their donations
More importantly, you are, in fact, choosing to take a lower salary in order to spend your labour on your non profit. This means you are choosing actions that lead to you not donating to other charities. If you think this is the correct thing to do, altruistically speaking, then you think this achieves more good than taking a higher paying job and donating that money. I think it would be perverse if the GWWC pledge obliged people to make ineffective decisions that did less good by their lights
One thing I didn’t expand on in that thread is some uncertainty I have around ‘You think your sacrificed money is best spent on the non-profit you are working for’.
Right now my charity is definitely not that cost-effective, but I’m confident it will be one day. In my head, saving money for this charity is the best way to spend that money, but not the most cost-effective today.
I don’t nearly have the arrogance to believe that my charity is going to be the most cost-effective giving opportunity of all time, so donating 100% of my sacrificed earnings to this charity probably goes against the spirit of the pledge. On the other hand, it does feel like something would be lost by not incentivising people to make this kind of sacrifice in their careers.
(But ultimately I don’t care much for the status of a pledge or whatever, because I know I’m doing the right thing here)
For these reasons I haven’t considered my sacrifice as a GWWC pledge so far, but I’m uncertain about it.
GWWC doesn’t need your giving to be “the most cost-effective… of all time” so I think your sacrificed earnings is well within the spirit of the pledge. I’m interested so many people disagree with @Neel Nanda here on that front as well!
If your non profit will eventually be extremely cost effective, and donations now help it reach that point, then that would make donations now highly cost effective. Of course, you’re likely positively biased in favour of your non profit, so could easily be wrong in this assessment, but I am generally pro people making high conviction altruistic bets with their donations
More importantly, you are, in fact, choosing to take a lower salary in order to spend your labour on your non profit. This means you are choosing actions that lead to you not donating to other charities. If you think this is the correct thing to do, altruistically speaking, then you think this achieves more good than taking a higher paying job and donating that money. I think it would be perverse if the GWWC pledge obliged people to make ineffective decisions that did less good by their lights