LONGTERMISM: Why You Should Care About Future People
The Next Big Idea
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Is There a Future for Human Happiness?
I'm no defender of modern day consumerist culture, but one thing that's remarkable to me is just how much economic wealth we have built up and how poorly we turn it into human happiness. People often talk to me about my giving and kind of surprised that I regard it as an positive and my well-being. And that's because the best things in life are free. We can easily make those skeptics shaking their heads at our techno-utopianism by turning to some of the downside scenarios.
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