“Why I took the 10% Pledge before earning an income” by Luke Moore 🔸

This is a link post. When I was 17, a friend sent me Peter Singer's TED talk, and it changed my life. It opened my eyes to the immense privilege of ‘normal’ people in high-income countries compared to the rest of the world. Coming from a family where both my parents were part-time primary school teachers, I never thought of us as among the wealthiest globally—yet, with a median household income in the UK, to my astonishment—we were. The talk also emphasised that our donations could have an enormous, and measurable, impact—you don’t just have to give and hope it does something. This resonated deeply with me, and I took the 10% Pledge that same day. I wasn’t yet earning any income as I was still in high-school and then at university, so initially, I donated £10 a month to the Against Malaria Foundation. (When you take the 10% Pledge [...] The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 16th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZT5WB4PKxSZeGLYd6/why-i-took-the-10-pledge-before-earning-an-income --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.