This might be true. Again, I think it would be useful to ask: what is the counterfactual? All of this is applicable for anyone that starts working for Google or Facebook, if they were poor beforehand.
You’re interpreting as though they’re making evaluative all-things-considered judgments, but it seems to me that the OP is reporting feelings.
(If this post was written for EA’s criticism and red teaming contest, I’d find the subjective style and lack of exploring of alternatives inappropriate. By contrast, for what it aspires to be, I thought the post was extremely good at describing a certain mood. I’m usually a bit bad at inhabiting the experience of people with frugality intuitions / scrupulosity about spending, but this one seemed to evoke something that helps me understand and relate.)
And re Google or Facebook, the juxtaposition of “we’re doing this for altruistic reasons” and “we’re swimming in luxury” is extra jarring for some people.
You’re interpreting as though they’re making evaluative all-things-considered judgments, but it seems to me that the OP is reporting feelings.
(If this post was written for EA’s criticism and red teaming contest, I’d find the subjective style and lack of exploring of alternatives inappropriate. By contrast, for what it aspires to be, I thought the post was extremely good at describing a certain mood. I’m usually a bit bad at inhabiting the experience of people with frugality intuitions / scrupulosity about spending, but this one seemed to evoke something that helps me understand and relate.)
And re Google or Facebook, the juxtaposition of “we’re doing this for altruistic reasons” and “we’re swimming in luxury” is extra jarring for some people.