“Furthermore, psychologically, earning-to-give seems to me to be a better fit for the average EA than direct work. Many EAs are already working in a company and can simply move to donate more of their salary or focus on increasing their salary, rather than quit their job and start a new one.”
I want to expand what’s in the second sentence here. There are a substantial number of EAs already working at a job that they like, that makes them enough money to be able to reasonably donate lots of it. But most of them are probably over 25. Which is only half of EAs—according to this survey the median age is 25.
So since probably much of 80k’s audience is still choosing their career from an earlier stage, like still-in-university or fresh-out-and-unemployed or haven’t-chosen-a-major-yet, it makes sense to me that 80k wouldn’t emphasize earn to give for these people.
I’m also not sure the 15% funding the 85% quite holds. CFAR, for example, gets lots of donations but also gets money from people attending workshops. I don’t know the details, but I’d expect object-level charities like AMF to be able to have fairly wide appeal and to therefore get a decent amount of money from people who don’t identify as EAs. I’m not actually confident on that point and would welcome evidence in any direction about it.
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I’ll add that since this will be hosted in the context of Complice, which is a larger app, it may not make sense for me to add too many EA-specific features to it. So short-term it’ll probably look like linking to and/or pulling data from other sites like skillshare.im
But yeah, I do want to make a really great place for EAs to hang out online and to get to know each other while also being productive! So if there are ways for me to do that then I’m excited to work on them :)