*Unlocked* – 185. In the Long Term We Are All Dead
This Machine Kills
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Is There a Blind Spot in the Altruism?
There's an insistence that you can do good things in fields that are oriented towards good, but that the best way to do good is to earn a lot of money and donate that money. So there's a blind spot for asking what the externalities of going into those other industries where you earn to give are. And as a result, we end up coming with like the first sort of articulation of a deep political movement. This idea that politics doesn't really matter per se,. The marriage falls apart. By the time he wrote his 2015 book, Doing Good Better, he had already backpedaled on the any high paying job possible and give what you can.
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