Good point. In a toy model, it’d depend on relative cuts to labor versus non-labor inputs. Now that I think about it, it probably points towards exiting being better in mission-driven fields. People are more attached to their careers so the non-labor resources get cut deeply while all the staff try to hold onto their jobs.
Maybe I’d amend it to… if you’re willing to switch jobs, then you can benefit from increasing marginal returns in some sub-cause areas. Because maybe there’s a sub-cause area where lots of staff are quitting (out of fear the cause area isn’t worth it) while capital investment is about the same.
But I admit that, even if we knew those sub-cause areas existed, it’s not quite as punchy of a reason to stay in the cause area as a whole
Good point. In a toy model, it’d depend on relative cuts to labor versus non-labor inputs. Now that I think about it, it probably points towards exiting being better in mission-driven fields. People are more attached to their careers so the non-labor resources get cut deeply while all the staff try to hold onto their jobs.
Maybe I’d amend it to… if you’re willing to switch jobs, then you can benefit from increasing marginal returns in some sub-cause areas. Because maybe there’s a sub-cause area where lots of staff are quitting (out of fear the cause area isn’t worth it) while capital investment is about the same.
But I admit that, even if we knew those sub-cause areas existed, it’s not quite as punchy of a reason to stay in the cause area as a whole