Large but irregular income may be less valuable than lower-on-average but more regular income, e.g. because it makes planning more difficult and because it leads to paying more tax.
Not if someone’s solely earning to give, no. But (1) it’s possible to be “earning to give” and also hoping to enjoy some of the earnings oneself, and (2) AIUI this post is intended to be useful more generally than only to ETGers.
[EDITED to add: On rereading, actually it’s not clear that #2 is correct. But I suggest that it should be; LWers might reasonably be interested in finance careers for reasons other than altruism. I have heard that a few people who are not altruists are none the less attracted by the prospect of big piles of money, and some bits of the finance industry are quite well suited to LW-ish brains.]
Shouldn’t matter much for earn-to-give.
Not if someone’s solely earning to give, no. But (1) it’s possible to be “earning to give” and also hoping to enjoy some of the earnings oneself, and (2) AIUI this post is intended to be useful more generally than only to ETGers.
[EDITED to add: On rereading, actually it’s not clear that #2 is correct. But I suggest that it should be; LWers might reasonably be interested in finance careers for reasons other than altruism. I have heard that a few people who are not altruists are none the less attracted by the prospect of big piles of money, and some bits of the finance industry are quite well suited to LW-ish brains.]