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An unintended consequence is that you are effectively creating an extra income tax. If it becomes a social norm to donate 10% of your income, then the status distribution will incorporate this social norm, so status-aware people will feel compelled to donate just to have the same social status.
But this makes it harder to achieve the same level of spending and status with the same productivity, resulting in a reduced incentive for productivity.
This can lead to compensating behavior, just like a increased income tax. Maybe people disvalue the relative status because it becomes too expensive, or they disvalue the remaining spending power and therefore the productivity. Combined with the norm that omissions are morally neutral and you don't have an obligation to be the most productive you could be, this could have negative consequences.
I, for one, have no intention of doing anything for anyone unless it's worth it for me.
There's a reason there's a disclaimer at the top of the post saying it will mainly be of interest to those interested in Effective Altruism :-)
So if it became socially mandatory for EA members to donate all their disposable income, do you think that would be good for the EA movement?
Nope, I don't think it would be good for the EA movement at all! It's important to have life balance in doing good for the world, and getting fun things for oneself with disposable income helps ensure that doing good for the world is a marathon, not a sprint.
On a separate note about giving, it would be worthwhile for some people in the EA movement to shift from an earn-to-give orientation to one where they use their work time to make a contribution, due to the current talent gap in the EA movement. I myself am doing that, not teaching additional classes and instead orienting to working more on Intentional Insights to promote effective giving, for example.