
Is Effective Altruism Right? #1: Joshua Kissel
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Is EA a Movement? Is It a Cause?
The ideas of consumer marginal utility could be applied to conservatives and liberals, he says. "I don't want conservatives to reason this way because I think they're the wrong balance," writes Julian Zelizer in a new paper. The idea that EA is bourgeois morality or conservative or libertarian doesn't hold true for any ideology, but it can apply to left-leaning ones as well,. He adds: 'If we want to win more of this, well, did we trivial concern about marginal utility?'
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