Damn, I meant to mention him and then forgot. (Is it really many effective altruists? He’s the only example I know of, but I haven’t gone looking very hard.)
Will MacAskill does, and I think many other CEA employees. I think Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise do an ad-hoc thing but similar in that they mostly don’t treat the percentage donated as relevant—they set their personal allowance based on making their best effort without taking into account how much they’re currently earning. (I’m not 100% sure this is accurate though.) I don’t know the giving habits of many other EtGers but I wouldn’t be surprised if they used a broadly similar method to Jeff and Julia.
Damn, I meant to mention him and then forgot. (Is it really many effective altruists? He’s the only example I know of, but I haven’t gone looking very hard.)
It’s the basis for Giving What We Can’s Further Pledge. I know of a few other people who have taken it, either implicitly or explicitly.
Gotcha. Thanks.
Will MacAskill does, and I think many other CEA employees. I think Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise do an ad-hoc thing but similar in that they mostly don’t treat the percentage donated as relevant—they set their personal allowance based on making their best effort without taking into account how much they’re currently earning. (I’m not 100% sure this is accurate though.) I don’t know the giving habits of many other EtGers but I wouldn’t be surprised if they used a broadly similar method to Jeff and Julia.
Julia and I handle our donations differently:
Everything Julia earns is donated, after taxes.
I pick a percentage of my income at the beginning of the year to be donated.
Last year I went for 30%, this year I’m going for 33%.
EDIT: As of 2014-07-15 we’re now using a simpler system: we both donate half of what we earn.