Effective Altruism

Whitney: Effective altruism really focuses on accumulating as much wealth as possible to dedicate to these causes that they deem worthy over others. Whitney: McCaskill positions effective altruism is like, hey, we believe that the planet is going to have eight trillion people at some point in the future. And so we have to think of those eight trillion future humans and to make them as comfortable and well off as possible. We may need to make some sacrifices today with the people living on the planet right now.

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