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“Don’t scale up your lifestyle” by Dave Cortright 🔸
This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked.
Commenting and feedback guidelines:
Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own):
- I'm posting this to get it out there. I'd love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won't be as useful at this time.
- This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome.
- This is a Forum post that I wouldn't have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual)
The simplest way to have more impact across your entire lifespan is to scale up your earnings, but don’t scale up your lifestyle.
This is an “earn to give” strategy, so it should apply to nearly every EA. Even if you are working for an effective cause at an effective organization, you should be earning a living wage that includes enough headroom to tithe. (If you're not, I’m sure folks at the Centre for Effective Altruism would love [...]
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First published:
March 1st, 2026
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pjH7XPeHf6feiJCZh/don-t-scale-up-your-lifestyle
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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By EA Forum TeamThis is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked.
Commenting and feedback guidelines:
Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own):
- I'm posting this to get it out there. I'd love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won't be as useful at this time.
- This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome.
- This is a Forum post that I wouldn't have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual)
The simplest way to have more impact across your entire lifespan is to scale up your earnings, but don’t scale up your lifestyle.
This is an “earn to give” strategy, so it should apply to nearly every EA. Even if you are working for an effective cause at an effective organization, you should be earning a living wage that includes enough headroom to tithe. (If you're not, I’m sure folks at the Centre for Effective Altruism would love [...]
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First published:
March 1st, 2026
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pjH7XPeHf6feiJCZh/don-t-scale-up-your-lifestyle
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.