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Opinion | People Are More Generous Than You May Think
nytimes.com
That common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance of our differences. To equal political rights and equal opportunity. To participating in our civic life. To sacrificing for the ideals we hold in common. To upholding the truth.
We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments. With... See more
One day some historian of effective altruism will marvel at how easily it transformed itself. It turned its back on living people without bloodshed or even, really, much shouting. You might think that people who had sacrificed fame and fortune to save poor children in Africa would rebel at the idea of moving on from poor children in Africa to futur
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
"The movement, known as E.A. to its practitioners, who themselves are known as E.A.s, takes as its premise that people ought to do good in the most clear-sighted, ambitious, and unsentimental way possible. Among other back-of-the-envelope estimates, E.A.s believe that a life in the developing world can be saved for about four thousand dollars. Effe... See more
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
Charity is good; there are aspects of the effective altruism movement that are good, but the mandate to maximize it at scale deserves to be questioned and investigated.
Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
"The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar