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The Effective Altruism Scam

It Could Happen Here

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Effective Altruism Is Not Just About Earning to Give

Oxford University members were supposed to give away 10% of what they earned to the most cost effective charities possible which is fine there's nothing wrong with that idea basically. Over time though he's kind of moved into he's merged this and again the whole effective altruism movement a lot of it does start reasonably with people being like are these charities we're donating to working how can we make sure they're effective? "It completely overlooks our obligation morally to agitate for structural change right like it says like if you can become a billionaire through whatever bullshit evil fucking exploitative grift you can and then give 90% of that away I think there's some sketchy shit there"

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