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Completely disagree. Even if you're maximizing for donations, any reasonable analysis would still have to privilege your own well-being as a giver. Lowering you
by HaseebQ 10y ago
Completely disagree. Even if you're maximizing for donations, any reasonable analysis would still have to privilege your own well-being as a giver. Lowering your burnout/regression rate from 25% to 5% by giving yourself a higher quality of life seems like one of the best investments you can make.
You don't need to expend wads of cash. But you don't need to be destitute as a software engineer to give effectively.
- telotortium 10y agoI actually agree with you. I was being a bit facetious - 80000 hours is somewhat infamous for a rigidly utilitarian view of effective charity and for optimizing for monetary means of increasing the effectiveness of said charities. But even they recognize the risk of burnout.
- lostboys67 10y agoAnd you should give out of income not capital - you donate capital in your will.