
Episode #085 ... Peter Singer on Effective Altruism
Philosophize This!
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How Much Good Can I Really Do?
It's not enough just to have a knee jerk emotional response to something. We need to do a little bit of digging to find out what organization is going to be doing the most good with our money. Peter singer talks about how we we're born into a world that tells us hard work is a virtue and that the paradime that you're supposed to strive for is to make more money so that you can spend more money. The same dynamic applies to people dying in developing countries.
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