TsviBT comments on Proportional Giving - Less Wrong

10 Post author: gjm 02 March 2014 09:09PM

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Comment author: TsviBT 02 March 2014 09:27:34PM 6 points [-]

One factor you didn't mention is that significantly harder working people might need to spend more income to maintain their productivity. E.g. traders working 80-hour weeks might spend more on food because they don't have time to cook, more on clothes because their job requires signaling, more on airplane tickets because they have short-notice time-sensitive tasks requiring travel, etc. But there's still no reason this should work out to anything like proportional giving, so your point stands.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2014 04:34:14PM 1 point [-]

If you only add this effect while keeping the rest of the reasoning the same, the amount you should give is your discretionary income minus a constant, rather than your total income minus a constant.