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86. A Million-Year View on Morality

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Effective Altruism Is the Best Stagedy for an Individual

It seems hard to argue against effective altruism, but let's talk what one needs to believe about the world to conclude that effective altruism is the best stragedy for an individual to follow. Globally, an annual income of even ten or teen thousand dollars makes you rich, which is surprising. So in financial terms, someone in a typical income rich country is about a hundred times richer than some one living in extreme poverty. And that means that you can benefit them, increase their well being by a fact of about a hundred compared to how much you can increase your own well being.

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