Ali pledges to give 10% of his income to effective charities every year for the rest of his life or until he retires (2019)
promise · status: open (no report in 2019–2024) · last event: promised (2019-12-25) · owner: Ali
About: Giving What We Can
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-25 | promised | After mulling it over for several years, Ali has taken the Giving What We Can pledge: he will give 10% of his income to effective charities every year for life, or until he retires. | Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity 00:13:15 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Ali: Giving What We Can, Ali explains, is a charity that encourages people to pledge to donate 10% of their income every year to effective charities that save lives. — 00:00:29
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Ali's friend Lucia, also a junior doctor and a friend from medical school, was the one who first introduced him to the idea of the 10% pledge. — 00:01:08
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Lucia says the average UK graduate starting salary of around £25,000 puts you in the richest 3% of the world, and after the 10% pledge you are still in the richest 4%. — 00:02:54
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Ali says those taking the pledge define an effective charity by evidence-based metrics that other people have worked out. — 00:03:58
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Ali: As Ali reads it, the Giving What We Can pledge commits the signer, for life or until retirement, to give at least 10% of earnings to the organisations that can most effectively improve others' lives. — 00:06:18
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Lucia: Students, who have no regular income, give around 1% of their spending money under the Giving What We Can pledge, Lucia says. — 00:06:48
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Ali: Reading the pledge page, Ali notes the Giving What We Can pledge is in no way legally binding: a voluntary commitment enforced solely by the pledger's own conscience. — 00:06:48
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Ali: Asked on the pledge form how much of his income he would have donated without Giving What We Can, Ali answers "two, maybe". (hedged) — 00:07:18
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — Lucia says the Giving What We Can pledge is one part of effective altruism; another is 80,000 Hours, which helps people find the most impactful things to do with their careers. — 00:10:30
- 2019-12-25 · Why I'm Giving 10% of my Income to Charity — recommendation: Ali invites viewers who want to know more to read the books Lucia recommends, or to join them in taking the Giving What We Can pledge. — 00:12:49