Is Effective Altruism Right? #7: Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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The Effect of Altruism on Social Change
I think there's like you can swing too far in the direction of just get everyone in a room and then talk. But I, and the other thing that comes to mind is that,. like space is very segregated now, according to class. Like if I walk around my neighborhood, I'm going to find most rich people. It seems like they will be very, very willing to look at sort of big or bold or very, you know, different from the status quo but then it seems like a lot of effective altruism is very pragmatic by contrast. So this is the kind of like pragmatism where it's argued at length elsewhere that poverty could be fixed by gun violence reparations
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