History of "Earning to Give"

Abstract

In making a subpage for giving I wanted to link to places where people have advocated “earning to give”. That’s the idea that educated first worlders can generally most improve the world by earning as much as they can and donating heavily to effective charities. The oldest formulation of this idea I can find is Brian Tomasik’s Why Activists Should Consider Making Lots of Money from 2006. I’ve fou.