Hi Everyone!
I'm currently a high school student in the United States. I've been casually following and supporting EA for about 1.5 years now, doing what I can with donating any extra money to effective causes. However, I have recently been getting a lot more interested in EA and am looking to get more involved. Since most EA opportunities are centered more towards university students and older I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for what I could do at this point of my life (Apart from dedicating my career of course).
Thanks in advance!
Attempt to bequeath your future self a kinder, more joyful, more competent person. This might involve:
You are probably right that it's hard to make concrete improvements to the world right now, but you can give a gift to your future self of a better situation. The key is for that to be something that that person will endorse. Increasing their competence, joy, kindness and optionality seems likely to be good.
Unless you become a billionaire in which case I want a bit of obligation, sorry
There are videos scattered across https://www.givedirectly.org but you get their recipients stories in a more raw form from https://live.givedirectly.org (in many cases click on the summary story for past questions and answers with that recipient).
Outside of GiveDirectly, I found https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street informative.
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