Personally, I use the old “tithe” heuristic, with half going to political causes and half to more conventional charity. I doubt it’s optimized, but my financial situation is uncertain enough going forward that I don’t want to go too crazy with donations—I’m accumulating a lot of savings instead, and those can always be donated later. But I want to work for myself first, mostly out of simple selfishness, but partially because that’s the society that tends to do best at actually making people off, and I don’t want to wreck that social norm.
Personally, I use the old “tithe” heuristic, with half going to political causes and half to more conventional charity. I doubt it’s optimized, but my financial situation is uncertain enough going forward that I don’t want to go too crazy with donations—I’m accumulating a lot of savings instead, and those can always be donated later. But I want to work for myself first, mostly out of simple selfishness, but partially because that’s the society that tends to do best at actually making people off, and I don’t want to wreck that social norm.