My experience is that the number of people who even ask for your justification for increasing your income or wealth is approximately zero. Like I do not think I have ever once in my life had someone say any variation on, "But why would you want to make more money?" And, to be clear, I'm pretty wealthy and am well past the point where, like, there's an obvious necessity for more money. I'm not a subsistence farmer is what I'm saying.
If someone does hassle you about your justifications for your wealth, it seems really easy to write that off as jealousy.
I am sure that somewhere in the world, there is someone so simultaneously ambitious yet wracked with guilt about their ambition that they need an excuse to satisfy their ambition. I just doubt that there are enough such people that Effective Altruism can use such people as a foundation for its existence.
If someone does hassle you about your justifications for your wealth, it seems really easy to write that off as jealousy.
I am sure that somewhere in the world, there is someone so simultaneously ambitious yet wracked with guilt about their ambition that they need an excuse to satisfy their ambition. I just doubt that there are enough such people that Effective Altruism can use such people as a foundation for its existence.