Why Should I Be Concerned About the Life of Someone Who's Living 100,000 Years From Now?

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The moral argument they would make is we've been gradually expanding the people that we care about. Dylan, I don't have kids, although I care a lot about the world that my nieces and nephews are going to grow up in. The difference in space might not be any more significant or any less significant than the difference in time between someone like you now and someone like you centuries or millennia into the future.

A new wave of philanthropists wants to make charity more effective. They’re focused not just on the present day but also thousands of years into the future. Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains how “effective altruism” became a multibillion-dollar philanthropic force.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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