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MacAskill: Many cause areas are talent-constrained rather than funding-constrained
“And in fact, for many cause areas, I think the More constrained by having really good people, really talented people than by having just, you know, additional money on the margin.”
MacAskill: Strongly favors limited-life foundations over perpetual endowments
“I'm extremely pro limited life foundations and very skeptical of perpetual foundations where within that I'd include universities as well.”
MacAskill: Harvard and Stanford should spend their endowments rather than fundraising
“It kind of baffles me that organizations, that, yeah, organizations like Harvard and Stanford are requesting donations from their alumni while at the same time sitting on an endowment of thirty-five billion dollars that they could be spending down.”