{"items": [{"author": "Adam&nbsp;Yie", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114873051319510815414", "anchor": "gp-1312917049991", "service": "gp", "text": "What's the difference between (c) and (e)?\n<br>\n<br>\nAlso, sometimes you talk to those lawyers and find out that they're both disgustingly happy and making more than you thought they did. No matter, they'll be first up against the wall when the revolution comes. =)", "timestamp": 1312917049}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1312920570452", "service": "gp", "text": "@Adam&nbsp;Yie\n if your estimate of your happiness and money as a lawyer is very high (after talking to lawyers) that's a decent reason to go into it. I wrote \"don't make as much money as you thought they did, and are generally unhappy\" based on my second hand impression of what julia had found when she looked into it.\n<br>\n<br>\nAs for c (give until it hurts) vs e (give as much as you can) is how far you take it. Under c you stop giving once it hurts. Under e you keep giving past the point of hurt until you're at the bare minimum at which you will be able to keep earning your maximum.", "timestamp": 1312920570}, {"author": "Adam&nbsp;Yie", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114873051319510815414", "anchor": "gp-1312923800070", "service": "gp", "text": "@Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman\n thanks for the clarification.", "timestamp": 1312923800}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/130659880360612?comment_id=130876527005614", "anchor": "fb-130876527005614", "service": "fb", "text": "As a tax preparer I can tell you that few people give as much as 1%. It is also when you give. If you are an effective saver and investor, you may well accumulate wealth that will allow you to give much more in absolute terms. I believe that you should choose small charities as your dollars tend to be direct and not diluted by bureaucracy . My personal favorite is Earthen Vessels (http://www.facebook.com/...) which matches college students as tutors to inner city kids.", "timestamp": "1312942543"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/130659880360612?comment_id=131074163652517", "anchor": "fb-131074163652517", "service": "fb", "text": "@Phillip:<br><br>Choosing small charities instead of large ones in order to dilute your dollar less does sound reasonable, but it doesn't do as much good as possible.  Imagine two charities, both trying to help people by preventing disease.  One is large and bureaucratic, spending 50 cents of every dollar on overhead and the other 50 cents on distributing mosquito nets.  The other is small and focused, run on volunteer time, and spends 100% of every donation on antidiarrheal drugs.  Which one is better?  It depends on how effective mosquito nets are compared to antidiarrheal drugs.  If the drugs save one life per $5000 spent while the nets save one life per $500, then $100 given to the mosquito net charity will help 5 times as much, even though it has higher overhead.  So we should support the most effective charity, after factoring in overhead costs, but not look at those alone.<br><br>I'm also skeptical that earthen vessels is on the level of the most effective charities.  Reading their website, it looks like that while they are having a positive impact on the children they are helping, they must be spending a lot to get that impact.  For example, they spend $450/kid on their summer camp program, for a two week session [1].<br><br>Givewell's evaluation of village reach puts the cost per infant death averted at under $1000. [2]  I don't think the positive impact on two children's lives of two weeks of supportive summer camp is likely to be anywhere near as large as the positive impact of keeping one child from dying.<br><br>[1] \"Your donations and bids totaling over $4500 have sent ten EVkids to our camp in Granville VT for two weeks this summer\" -- http://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/AuctionHome.action...<br><br>[2] http://www.givewell.org/intern.../top-charities/villagereach", "timestamp": "1312984895"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103775592027106438640", "anchor": "gp-1312988799978", "service": "gp", "text": "I think it depends on what branch of law you go into.  And how much you like working very long hours.  :-)", "timestamp": 1312988799}, {"author": "Zachary", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118117322916023115377", "anchor": "gp-1401478846532", "service": "gp", "text": "My two bits: Given psychology's recent research on income and experiential happiness, what I am thinking of donating is something like 10% of income below the level where income doesn't increase your happiness much, and 50% over that. This helps with the issue of income disparities in advocacy: It's relatively easy to give 50% if you're making around $75,000 and not supporting a family, but to ask a public-school teacher/parent to emulate your 50% would be asking them to make much greater sacrifices.", "timestamp": 1401478846}]}