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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Consequences of Effective Altruism

A recent Wall Street Journal article said that doing business is the best way to help people at scale and reduce unnecessary suffering. In some circumstances, markets can be extremely good ways of allocating resources but there are many cases where they don't produce ideal social outcomes. The extreme poor who are living in a country with poor political institutions do not have democratic say over policies those rich countries are then acting on.

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