“Why I donate: seems easy, seems obvious, I rarely think about it” by Amrit Sidhu-Brar 🔸

I’ve been reading the other Why I Donate Week posts with interest. One of the main things that struck me reading them was something like: it seems like giving is a big part of these people's lives – which is beautiful and I love it. But I mostly don’t relate to it in a very similar way myself, so I thought I’d write this for a different perspective!I took the 10% Pledge in 2017, and have been giving at least 10% since then.[1] Currently I give in a vaguely Further-Pledge-like way, i.e. everything above a threshold that's currently about £34k/year after tax. That currently works out to giving around 40% of my gross/pre-tax income, though that might change in either direction in future. The main way I relate to giving is honestly that I don’t think I relate to it very much at all. If I ask myself how it feels, the main things that come to mind are like: feels easy, feels obvious, doesn’t feel dramatic. If I ask myself why I give, or how I feel about giving, the thing that feels most true is: With my current level of giving, I feel like I [...] --- First published: December 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vX2PxtdjbYiyeEqio/why-i-donate-seems-easy-seems-obvious-i-rarely-think-about --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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