#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Argument for Saving the Last Child in the Last Pond
"We can save many more people than we've saved thus far but the thing is we have a fancy lifeboat right I mean civilization itself is a is a fancy life boat and you know there are people drowning," he says. "There's obviously an argument for spending a lot of time and a lot of money saving people and pulling them in." He argues that it would be better if creative people were incentivized to spend some time at the edge pulling people in with better tools, such as hammers or pliers. 'This moves to the larger topic of just how we envision building a good society'
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