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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Are You a Merchant Banker or a Nurse?

Robinson: One in four people should be doing that they're only to give role trying to make money to support other people and then the fourth we just call direct work which is kind of everything else just trying to solve the problem directly. Do you worry that approach dissuades people from being modest gentle do-gooders in life? You want to find a method for solving the problem that matches your skills, he says. Robinson: I don't worry about that i might might not be surprised to hear that i i i a lot of the people were trying to reach are like very privileged people who've gone to great universities.

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