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It's a clever explanation, but I'm not sure how much to believe it without analysing other hypotheses. E.g. maybe tax-deductibility is a major factor, or maybe it's just much harder to give away large amounts of money quickly.
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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
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* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
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I like the idea, but I'm not sure it fully captures what is going on. We could be comparing the poor person not to the foundation but to the rich person who endowed it, and asking why they waited until late in life to do so rather than continually donating. The 'poor' person does indeed have a valuable asset in their future earning potential, but so does the young Bill Gates. He could have sold a bit more MSFT stock every time it went up, rather than waiting until the end.