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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Why You Shouldn't Compound Human Capital

It's quite hard to compound human capital. You can kind of do it by growing a community and then hoping that, like, the community wi'll kind of carry forward the values after you die. But generally, most ivs correer capital drops to zeroatthe end. And so if you think the key hinge moment is like going to be after your death, then that could be another argument frnning to give. Othr comments with a only to give is that if this idea of kind of your saving and investing money for a very long time can a pand out as being a really good method, at least as some point we should kind o switch to doing that.

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