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Daniel_Burfoot comments on Giving: is money better than options? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: jkaufman 05 January 2012 01:54PM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 05 January 2012 07:26:17PM 1 point [-]

You might not want to reveal to your coworkers that you have decided to donate the option money. The whole point of giving away stock options is to incentivize people; that incentive is undermined if the employee gives away the upside.

Comment author: paulfchristiano 05 January 2012 07:38:54PM 7 points [-]

Well, if you are giving away money you are suggesting you value marginal dollars going to your charity of choice just as much as you value marginal dollars going to you. So if your coworkers also believe you are a perfect consequentialist unconcerned with signaling then you are fine.