The Life You Can Save, How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

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A lot of people don't realize how much good they can do at relatively small cost. A hundred dollars to prevent somebody going blind, then for the forty thousand dollars that it takes to train the guide dog, you could prevent 400 people from becoming blind. Even though this difference so at least 400 times better value to donate to one of these organizations like the fred hollows foundation or seve there.

Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is one of the most influential philosophers of the past fifty years. A leading exponent of utilitarianism, he has often explored how individuals can improve the lot of those in need with their own choices.

In this week’s conversation, Peter Singer and Yascha Mounk discuss what utilitarianism gets right, whether the effective altruism movement is effective, and why freedom of inquiry is crucial to improving the world.

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