Maybe 80,000ers should consider spending their vacations out in the field?

I agree. I'm writing from Ecuador right now. Seeing serious poverty first-hand does hit me in a different place than reading about it. But I still think donating to efficient charities is the best way to help these people - not me volunteering or moving here.

I think most of the 80K Hours founders are/were philosophy grad students. So they weren't especially likely to wind up as either on-the-ground nonprofit workers or high-flying financiers. And I gather many of them had an ugh field around money, so trying to earn more of it (and being read by other people as someone who loves money) is more of a sacrifice than it might seem.