Effective Altruism

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Dylan O'Brien: I would identify as an effective altruist. He took the giving what we can pledge which is a pledge from the A movement to give 10% of your income for the rest of your career to highly effective charities. The vast majority of it comes from two not just billionaires but sort of uber billionaire households, says O'Brien. Kirituna and her husband Dustin Moskovitz are perhaps best known in the public as roommates at Harvard of Mark Zuckerberg who helped him found Facebook.

A new wave of philanthropists wants to make charity more effective. They’re focused not just on the present day but also thousands of years into the future. Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains how “effective altruism” became a multibillion-dollar philanthropic force.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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