All the EA-committed dollars in the world are a tiny drop in the ocean of the world’s problems and it takes really incredible talent to leverage those dollars in a way that would be more effective than adding to them.
This seems false to me. I agree that earning to give should be highly rewarded and so on, but I don’t think that, for example, launching an effective giving organization requires an incredible amount of talent. There have been many launched recently, either by CE or local groups (I was part of the team that launched one in Denmark). Recently, EAIF said that they are not funding-constrained, and there are a lot of projects being funded on Manifund. It looks more like funders are looking for new projects to fund. So either most of the funders are wrong in their assessment and should just grant to existing opportunities, or there is still room for new projects.
If anything my experience was that the bar for direct work is way lower than I expected and part of reason why I thought that way was that there are comments like this.
This seems false to me. I agree that earning to give should be highly rewarded and so on, but I don’t think that, for example, launching an effective giving organization requires an incredible amount of talent. There have been many launched recently, either by CE or local groups (I was part of the team that launched one in Denmark). Recently, EAIF said that they are not funding-constrained, and there are a lot of projects being funded on Manifund. It looks more like funders are looking for new projects to fund. So either most of the funders are wrong in their assessment and should just grant to existing opportunities, or there is still room for new projects.
If anything my experience was that the bar for direct work is way lower than I expected and part of reason why I thought that way was that there are comments like this.