How to Spread the Meam Among the Very Wealthy?

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I think we would be in a different situation with respect to the reality of human suffering, andan animal suffering if more people had their attitude toward how much wealth they were giving away. There's just absolutely massove amounts that could be done by this. And when doing it, you should be focusing on how much good you can do,. many of which are kind of self serving in the end. That is not charity thike. Anythingthat no first fall.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sam Bankman-Fried about effective altruism. They discuss how he became the wealthiest self-made billionaire under 30, what might go wrong with cryptocurrency, the Giving What We Can pledge, how SBF thinks about using his resources to do the most good in the world, how not to stigmatize wealth, wealth redistribution, norms of generosity among the ultra-wealthy, pandemic preparedness, impact through lobbying, how ambitious should we be in doing good, and other topics.

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