This is impossible to answer and a seemingly constantly moving target. The truth of the premise relies upon a bunch of assumptions, including that other people are staffing the aid agencies, manning the ships that send supplies, directly providing aid in the field wherever it is needed, founding, running, and investing in companies that can pay you a high salary. That specific strategy might work perfectly well for the average marginal person searching the Internet from the US to figure out what they should do, but it can't be universalized, because if everyone tried to do it, the entire system would collapse on itself.
Just do whatever good you can do. If you're in a position where a high-paying job in the west is something you're likely to slip into anyway and none of the other roles you'd be relying on seem appealing or likely, then sure, donate some of that high salary. But we can't possibly recommend unqualified that everyone should do that.
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This is impossible to answer and a seemingly constantly moving target. The truth of the premise relies upon a bunch of assumptions, including that other people are staffing the aid agencies, manning the ships that send supplies, directly providing aid in the field wherever it is needed, founding, running, and investing in companies that can pay you a high salary. That specific strategy might work perfectly well for the average marginal person searching the Internet from the US to figure out what they should do, but it can't be universalized, because if everyone tried to do it, the entire system would collapse on itself.
Just do whatever good you can do. If you're in a position where a high-paying job in the west is something you're likely to slip into anyway and none of the other roles you'd be relying on seem appealing or likely, then sure, donate some of that high salary. But we can't possibly recommend unqualified that everyone should do that.