Like so many, I had intuitively thought that something like **effective altruism** was the most promising path for someone born into the privileges of being a white male from the North Atlantic.
Dear T. Thanks for reminding me of our joint work for one of those "Deliver or Die" (I only now realize the meaning of Delodi!) start-ups. You, Thomas Rödiger, myself and a few others worked on "Humancredit" some 10 years ago. Although the "Adblocker that paid out to accredited NGO" didn't make it beyond bootstrapping phase, it was yet another memorable start-up experience in the Social Enterprise space.
The "fuckton of money" principle rings familiar. Because it is the "old" philantropy concept since Rockefeller that some management gurus (e.g. Peter Drucker) advocated: get rich first, donate after. A misleading approach ever since "Geld verdirbt den Charakter", it channels the existing and personal energy on to the established societal, calvinistic principle and doesn't account for the transformation that every generation has as its task. Or to put it bluntly: On the road to money, you sell out and become lazy in regards to earlier aspirations. By that, this "philantropy" is a strong lever to keeping things as they are. Of course you know that. In the end, Drucker knew, too. His probably most famous saying leaves some levy for interpretation: Why would I want to be the richest person on the cemetery? :)
Dear T. Thanks for reminding me of our joint work for one of those "Deliver or Die" (I only now realize the meaning of Delodi!) start-ups. You, Thomas Rödiger, myself and a few others worked on "Humancredit" some 10 years ago. Although the "Adblocker that paid out to accredited NGO" didn't make it beyond bootstrapping phase, it was yet another memorable start-up experience in the Social Enterprise space.
The "fuckton of money" principle rings familiar. Because it is the "old" philantropy concept since Rockefeller that some management gurus (e.g. Peter Drucker) advocated: get rich first, donate after. A misleading approach ever since "Geld verdirbt den Charakter", it channels the existing and personal energy on to the established societal, calvinistic principle and doesn't account for the transformation that every generation has as its task. Or to put it bluntly: On the road to money, you sell out and become lazy in regards to earlier aspirations. By that, this "philantropy" is a strong lever to keeping things as they are. Of course you know that. In the end, Drucker knew, too. His probably most famous saying leaves some levy for interpretation: Why would I want to be the richest person on the cemetery? :)