This is basically what I said, but thank you for the template answer, it’s good to have one. A few people have argued that it feels like this move shows that EA has reverted to the default path that charitable organisations take where they end up bloated and spending lots of money on ops, HR and lobbying. I’m not saying I believe this, but I think it’s bad for this image to be validated in any way.
Yeah this is my biggest concern. The whole value proposition of EA was to get away from the normal failure modes of charities. If they are falling into the same traps of using shoddy reasoning to justify self serving behaviour that’s a major structural problem, not just a matter of a single decision.
A few people have argued that it feels like this move shows that EA has reverted to the default path that charitable organisations take where they end up bloated and spending lots of money on ops, HR and lobbying.
I think it’s probably correct to update in that direction based on this. (Though probably not all the way.)
This is basically what I said, but thank you for the template answer, it’s good to have one. A few people have argued that it feels like this move shows that EA has reverted to the default path that charitable organisations take where they end up bloated and spending lots of money on ops, HR and lobbying. I’m not saying I believe this, but I think it’s bad for this image to be validated in any way.
Yeah this is my biggest concern. The whole value proposition of EA was to get away from the normal failure modes of charities. If they are falling into the same traps of using shoddy reasoning to justify self serving behaviour that’s a major structural problem, not just a matter of a single decision.
I think it’s probably correct to update in that direction based on this. (Though probably not all the way.)