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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Being a Good Person

We are in a very unusual place in the world you know it's only over the last couple of hundred years there's such a wild discrepancy between rich countries and poor countries. Our model instincts are just not attuned to that at all they are just not sensitive to the sheer scale of what an individual is able to achieve if he or she is trying to make a really positive difference in the world. We can do that just by targeting our donations to the most effective charities to help those people who are poorest in the world we could do that too If you wanted to choose a career that's gonna have a really big impact on the lives of others then this would be a great way to start.

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