#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Motivation in the World
"I strongly doubt that the kind of optimal tax rate would be you know via my donations would be a hundred percent it would be something in between," he says. "If my aim were to get as rich as possible then well i'd need to really look inside my own psychology figure out how much especially over the entire course of my life can i be motivated by pure altruism versus self-interest" He asks if his primary contribution to doing good in the world might in fact be your ideas and your ability to get them out there. 'There's no question you are inspiring people to marshal their resources in these directions and think more clearly about these issues'
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