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Re:Effective altruism is not effective by Tyr42 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:48PM (#26816014)
Sure. So it's possible to focus on getting rich and then never give back. There's a solution to that, which is continuing to give a percentage of your income.

Some people are quite charitable and give 10%. I'm a little more selfish and give 1.5%, but this is already currently helping people.

Is it really pie in the sky idealism if (statistically) I've saved around 6 lives to far, (and helped many more). Still early in my career, and lots of time to go. I hope to cross 100 someday. But I started just as I graduated and have kept it up every year.

So I suppose the next question in my rebuttal would be to ask what alternative you suggest?

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Re:Effective altruism is not effective by okintheory on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:18AM (#26831511)
Imagine you could make people give 30 % of their income... almost like a tax... but that would be political, not effective.
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Re:Effective altruism is not effective by Scea91 on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:53AM (#26832263)
In lots of western countries the total tax rate of work (tax wedge) is much more than 30 %.

According to [1] OECD average is 36 %. In my EU country it is 46 %.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-brochure.pd...

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