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The Effective Altruism Scam

It Could Happen Here

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The Crisis of Chirlanka Is a Political Crisis

13 years ago mr mccaskell found himself standing in the aisle of a grocery store agonizing over which breakfast cereal to buy if he switched to a cheaper brand for a year could he put aside enough money to save someone's life. 13 years later will you mCCaskell was founding cryptocurrency firm ftx and working on his first documentary about global poverty? i'm so fucking angry at this shit like yeah, i can see that this is going towards an excuse for incredibly wealthy people paying fuck all in taxes because they claim that that it's not an efficient way to do things. They completely ignore all these structural things which have to exist for their effective altruism to occur in

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