Generational Wealth and Redistribution

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i'm just wondering what you're as a fantastically wealthy person who is committed to the common good, how do you view things like wealth and equality. I think it's om ther are just obscene attitudes toward redistribution that you often, you know, meet among the most fortunate people in our society. There's very little concern about the common good,. Once one has read a sufficient amount of inrand in selicon valley. And so it's, i'm just wondering how you think about things likewealth and equality, generational wealth and redistribution. But also that hat that i think it's not how i want to spend my life and my time.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sam Bankman-Fried about effective altruism. They discuss how he became the wealthiest self-made billionaire under 30, what might go wrong with cryptocurrency, the Giving What We Can pledge, how SBF thinks about using his resources to do the most good in the world, how not to stigmatize wealth, wealth redistribution, norms of generosity among the ultra-wealthy, pandemic preparedness, impact through lobbying, how ambitious should we be in doing good, and other topics.

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