become financially independent early in life, and can remain so for the remainder of their lives, so that they can spend the rest of their careers volunteering for effective causes and organizations.
The problem is that you have to show this is better than just giving all your "excess" money to the effective causes right away and continuing to work in the normal manner.
This seems like a case of privileging the hypothesis. Why should we have to show that early retirement + EA volunteering is superior to working a standard job and donating free cash flow, and not the other way around?
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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