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Guided by the gospels of “radical longtermism” and “effective altruism” (EA), these newfangled storytellers are devoted to the flourishing of imaginary future people rather than the well-being of the masses right here, right now.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Most people call something bad if it is bad for them or bad for those they empathize with, ignoring the greater good.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Effective Altruists and finance theory - Marginal REVOLUTION
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The most important question in twenty-first-century economics may well be what to do with all the superfluous people.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
It seems very unintuitive because we're in a very unusual place in the world. It's only over the last couple of hundred years there's such a wild discrepancy between rich countries and poor countries where people in which countries have 100x the income of the poorest people in the world and where we have the technology to be able to change the live... See more