Only if they actually do it. It seems to follow that anyone willing to donate a symbolic dollar is already fairly likely to stay the course and therefore a low-priority target, whereas the people who wouldn’t donate the symbolic dollar are also the easiest to alienate.
Wouldn’t donating a symbolic dollar create even stronger psychological effect?
EA as a movement is about the idea that charity is not about engaging in symbolic actions but about actually having an effect.
Then people who don’t donate at all shouldn’t describe themselves as effective altruists.
They are aspiring effective altruists; they plan to donate in the future, but they may also change their minds later. Talk is cheap.
Only if they actually do it. It seems to follow that anyone willing to donate a symbolic dollar is already fairly likely to stay the course and therefore a low-priority target, whereas the people who wouldn’t donate the symbolic dollar are also the easiest to alienate.