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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Psychology of Giving

Toby originally had the thought that he would be promoting what he calls the further pledge which is where you just set a cap on your income and give everything above that. In the UK people donate on average point seven percent of their income in the u.s if you include educational donations and church donations people donate about two percent of their Income. If i was saying oh you should donate one percent probably those people would have been giving one percent anyway so we thought 10 percent is in this goldilocks zone.

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