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ving more of a reduction in taxable income from exceeding the standard deduction combining both of these considerations we see that the amount we plan to donate in 2022 needs to exceed the standard deduction increase from 2021 to 2022 namely 400 in order for us to benefit from deferring to 2022 although i m not totally sure i actually do expect that i m likely to donate at least 400 in 2022 excluding the fmp 3 000 donation so it makes sense to defer with that said if i ended up donating less than 400 i would not be devastated i m unlikely to deliberately change my donation behavior to get past the 400 point just to prove my past self right i did confirm that deferring from december to january did not meaningfully affect fmp s finances in general tax considerations are only a minor factor in my donation decisions in fact neither my q1 2019 ea hotel donation decision nor my most recent donation were tax deductible for me but i made them fmp is tax deductible and if considerations on the fmp side led me to believe that there was a significant benefit from donating sooner i would have done so however based on the information i had i concluded that donating in january as long as i committed and communicated the donation in december would be good enough potential future donations a lot depends on other donation opportunities i might find it s possible that over the coming months i will find other donation opportunities that i consider a more meaningful use of my donation budget i m not committing anything to fmp beyond this donation moreover since i am exiting the board i won t have any obligations of any sort i would want to understand fmp s role in spreading the idea of free movement and open borders better if i were to donate to fmp in the future or to recommend to others to donate more to it one thing i d like to nail down is a better picture of how exactly fmp is spreading the idea of free migration and open borders and how successful it has been i might have further conversations with dave on this point in the coming weeks and months and might write more about this even if i don t make a further donation as long as i think there s enough value in what fmp is doing to be worth bringing to the attention of others thoughts on fundraising dynamics fmp s overall fundraising strategy eaforum openborders i can t comment too much on the details of fmp s overall fundraising strategy but i will say that the bulk of fmp s funding at present does not seem to come from avid open borders believers or the effective altruist community or its penumbra the funding pattern seems to be reasonably similar to what you would expect of a migrant rights organization even more specifically of a migrant rights organization based in the philadelphia region given fmp s staff expansion in the last few years the organization needs to and is working to expand its fundraising to keep pace with its size i expect the bulk of this expansion to be with the same sort of donor base that has sustained fmp so far most of these donors have fairly different terminal values than i do also instrumentally the fundraising techniques that will work with these donors will be different from the things that would appeal to me the role of donors more broadly similar to me interested in open borders some connections to effective altruism in the sense of interest in doing the most good will likely depend on the extent to which fmp is able to make the case for how its activities help promote open borders more broadly i expect to get a better understanding of this in 2022 the alternative approach of running fundraisers many others on the board are running or considering running end of year fundraisers for fmp using facebook fundraisers i heard that other board members were using stack for fundraisers here are two of the fundraisers jamila hammami jasmine rivera two of the board members are also running a trivia night fundraiser doing a fundraiser did not personally sit well with me though i wish the best of luck to those running them i m articulating below some of my reasons that are partly personal and partly general epistemic considerations eaforum i generally favor making fewer larger donations that have a lot of thought in them over several smaller donations this is based on a more nuanced version of the one charity argument amazingly enough the linked post i wrote over 12 years ago back when i was a much less sophisticated thinker still seems to be one of the best expositions i know on the subject the world of donations in particular in the effective altruist sphere has evolved a lot since that crude argument but i think the general crux the idea that we should keep directing donations to the top charity at the relevant margin until the margins change enough still applies while we can imagine some charities such as the local soup kitchen where the marginal calculus changes after a few hundred dollars most moderate sized charities won t have the margin change at those small amounts as a rule of thumb i set a minimum of 1 000 per donation and generally think in multiples of thousand when thinking about how the marginal value of donations may change if my donation budget were under 1 000 which it isn t right now but was at some points in the past i would allocate it all to at most one charity i know of three kinds of exceptions to the rule favoring larger donations donations as gifts as i noted in my earlier post i would cap such donations at three times the private benefit to me donating to fmp doesn t really fit in this category donations as compensation for effort answering questions in the past i ve had cases where i talked to a nonprofit about donation but became less excited about donation after thinking and talking more however i want to reimburse the nonprofit for the effort of talking to me a donation of a few hundred dollars seems appropriate for this sort of case eaforum donations coordinated with multiple other donors e g as part of something like a s process as andrew critch explains in a video s process funding with multiple funders takes turns allocating small portions of each funder s budget in decreasing order of marginal value for organizations that all funders are similarly excited about this process spreads out the funding for the organization across funders the key is that an individual funder isn t going completely before or after other funders so the marginal value of each additional unit of funding from an individual funder changes not just due to that funder but due to the funds from other funders if there are several highly similar funders participating in a s process all of whom have very similar marginal value functions this process could lead to smaller per funder allocations from individual funders to the organization this donation is not part of an explicit s process nor can i identify even any implicit s process like mechanism here also i as a donor have very different marginal value functions from most of fmp s donor base one possible argument for fundraisers is that they raise awareness of the organization fmp and some of those participating in the fundraiser may form a direct relationship with fmp and donate more in future years i think this is plausible but unlikely if i ran a fundraiser given my friend group though the consideration might be more plausible for some of the others running fundraisers however i am trying to raise awareness in other ways for instance with my open borders action group post and with this blog post you re reading right now if anything i think making a donation sends a more credible and convincing signal though that was a very minor consideration for me when deciding to donate in some cases the pressure to contribute to fundraisers works on a reciprocal basis i donate to your fundraisers you donate to mine since i generally don t donate to others fundraisers this reciprocal basis doesn t really apply to me conclusion all in all i am pretty satisfied with my decision to make a 3 000 donation to fmp after writing about it in more depth i encourage highly aligned donors to make 1 000 donations even without further investigation and to connect with fmp for the latest fundraising information if they are interested in donating more my next step would be understanding more clearly the role that fmp plays in spreading the message of open borders such an understanding might influence me to donate more in the future i might also write more publicly about my understanding in 2022 or later as i acquire more understanding even if i end up not donating further however it s possible i become more interested in other donation opportunities in the future and decide not to investigate this further free migration project open borders conference private charity do right on immigration to save the american republic december 4 2021 nathan smith 14 comments i was a vocal advocate of open borders for many years then after the spring of 2017 or so i fell rather silent not completely i wrote the essay don t restrict immigration tax it for the cato institute in may 2020 summarizing my long held views but i think my relative silence led some to think my convictions must have changed the amusingly titled michael barone essay open borders would produce dystopia says open borders advocate expresses it well i may not have officially recanted but didn t my writings suggest a certain halting reconsideration of long held views not at all or rather i do reconsider my views frequently but usually i conclude that yes i was right the reason i fell rather silent was a i wasn t sure if open borders advocacy was making freer immigration policies any more likely overton window vs backlash and b i had a family to support and open borders advocacy not only absorbed time and attention without usually paying anything but risked alienating people whose help and good will i would need in order to get remunerative work to dispel suspicions that i ve changed my mind though i thought it might be of interest to state the case for open borders as i see it now as far as i know it s the same as it was five years ago but i m restating it now out of my head without particularly reviewing old writings out of curiosity about how consistent i ve been and there is one further reason quite new to add to my case if not necessarily for open borders i ll get to that at the end first there s the utilitarian case for open borders migration restrictions are very inefficient because they force people to stay in countries where they re far less productive than they might be that makes them less happy and thriving it also makes them less able to be of use and contribute to the flourishing of others open borders would empower billions of people to move to opportunity and become much more productive migrants remittances to and feedback on their countries of origin would spread the beneficent effects to non migrants if one believes that policy should serve the greatest happiness of the greatest number in jeremy bentham s time worn and of course somewhat ill defined phrase then open borders should top the priority list economic estimates though highly speculative are the best available guesses as to what a world of open borders would look like and roughly speaking the median guess a conservative guess in many ways far more optimism could be cogently advocated is that open borders would double world gdp second there s what might be called the deontological or rights based case for open borders which grows out of the question of when violence may justly be used i assume that some violence is just for example in self defense or up to a point for the redress of wrongs indeed i d even insist that simple retribution though hopefully without the passions associated with the term revenge is sometimes an adequate justification for the use of force now when an immigrant is prevented by force i e by violence from entering the territory of a country that needs justification since violence is presumptively wrong but the peaceful immigrant has violated no one s rights so it s simply not licit to use force against him now there could be tension between these lines of argument often deontological and utilitarian reasoning lead to opposed conclusions and it s hard to settle the resulting debates and i even think there are some edge cases under the general topic of immigration where utilitarian and deontological reasoning do collide in incompatible conclusions for example if x is the cousin of a ruthless terrorist and pleads for entry into the us to keep him safe there is reason to think he needs asylum but also reason to fear that he is dissembling and working for the terrorist cause human rights deontology might suggest letting him in while national security utilitarianism suggests keeping him out epidemiology also gives rise to edge cases where a likely disease bearer needs to cross an international border yet jeopardizes the health of the domestic population but this is rare the vast majority of potential migrants are not plausible terrorist threats and don t plausibly carry contagious diseases not already endemic in the destination country where restrictions of movement are needed to control the spread of contagious disease temporary quarantine is almost always a practical and far less coercive alternative to permanent exclusion for the vast majority of cases i believe that the rights based case for open borders and the utilitarian case for open borders agree and complement one another third the kind of open borders that i ve usually advocated involving the substitution of migration taxes for migration restrictions would be desirable even from a more narrowly nationalist perspective that considers only the welfare of citizens of a country like the united states citizens would enjoy large benefits from open borders as employers landlords merchants colleagues and investors profiting through trade with the new immigrant masses the economic impacts would vary widely depending on citizens endowment of factors of production such as land labor power skills investable funds and subtler things like connections ability to influence policymaking and preferences but probably the vast majority of citizens would benefit naturally on balance from open borders through simple market exchange and the government could use migration taxes and redistribution to make open borders economically advantageous for virtually all native citizens of immigrant receiving countries fourth importantly for me as a christian though not for all the likely readers of this post is the commands of god to men through the bible and the christian churches when i began advocating open borders i thought the cause was very harmonious with the spirit of the new testament but that the bible probably had a good deal that opponents could use against it probably in the old testament and that to advocate open borders so 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