Great post! To address Rich-Person Morality, I wonder if it would make sense to support political movements to advocate for increased foreign aid for effective programs in the developing world. Government agencies like USAID and DFID are already some of the largest donors to many effective programs (e.g. malaria control and deworming). Yet at the same time, the USAID budget is less than one percent of federal budget, so there seems like there is room to give more.
One nice thing about this type of advocacy is that it would be inclusive of people of all income levels, since we can all vote for candidates who would support increasing the foreign aid budget for effective programs.
Examples of this type of advocacy include the ONE Campaign and the END7 campaign.
We could also advocate for less restrictive immigration laws and government policies to support reduced meat consumption. We could even create a “EA” legislative scorecard to endorse candidates running for public office.
[Update: edited post to reflect Owen’s feedback that we should be supporting existing efforts]
This year I’m supporting the Male Contraception Initiative to help fund research into non-hormonal male contraceptives.
The rationale for this is:
About 40% of pregnancies worldwide are unintended
There are limited contraceptive options for men
Male contraceptive research is very underfunded and there appear to be significant funding gaps.
Non-hormonal methods may have fewer side effects than hormonal methods.
I got interested in male contraception after reading this post about vasalgel: https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/4gvd40/vasalgel/
Some concerns are:
This research is very speculative and likely to fail
The cost of bringing a new contraceptive market is on the order of $100 million, and higher if you adjust for the cost of all the failures.