Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
by circular_lights on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:09AM
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The philosophy of dead men walking
Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
by vzqx on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:52AM
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If you give 10% of your income, you're still keeping 90% for yourself. So it implies you consider yourself nine times as valuable as all other humans. I'm not on board with Effective Altruism, but 10% of your income seems like a reasonable amount to give to those less fortunate.
Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
by kazinator on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:05AM
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> So it implies you consider yourself nine times as valuable as all other humans.
No, far more than that. To consider yourself equally valuable, you would have to divide your income into eight billion parts and keep one. Nine times as valuable as other humans just brings that up to around nine of these parts.
90% for individual you, 10% for 8 billion others means you consider yourself vastly more valuable.
I would love to see one of these privileged man-children trying that on his wife, one day.
"Dearie, all individuals are equal; you and our two children are worth exactly as much as some whore that walked the streets of Bombay in 1859, and so that's why I have to give away 10% of my income."