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#228 — Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Are You a Giant Bastard?

There's a culture that prioritizes having the lowest possible overhead. And yet, there's this sense that if you're ging to make millions of dollars personally by starting a software company or coming a a an actor in hollywood,. But if you are making millions of dollars a year running a charity, well, then you're a greedy bastard, right? The idea that we wouldn't fault someone from pursuing a comparatively frivolous and even narcisistic career for getting rich in the meantime seems like a bizarre double standard with respect to how we want to insentivize people. We need a sort of filtering for sainthood, or something like sainthood, among the most competent

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