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On Background: Effective Altruism Still Has Friends

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The Importance of Earning to Give

The idea of earning to give is very different from what was being pitched by the leaders of effective altruism back when Sam Beckman free was MIT. It's funny because the earned to give idea originates with Toby Ward doing it himself and he's on an Oxford professor's salary. For a brief period, Sam Beckman freed made it look very easy. So I wouldn't say it's gone away, but I would distinguish that kind of earning to giving from the, oh, let's actually try to get into the very tail end of the highest paying jobs,.

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