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The first 2 questions remind me of the (fantastic) book I'm reading Doing Good Better. This is basically effective altruism. This book argues that a dollar goe
by spectrum1234 9y ago
The first 2 questions remind me of the (fantastic) book I'm reading Doing Good Better. This is basically effective altruism.
This book argues that a dollar goes a lot farther in the third world. (Obviously.)
It also has a great story about how money spent on educational resources can have almost no effect while money spent on deworming (yes, worms) can greatly increase educational results. (Not so obvious.) This is a third world example but its fairly obvious the problems with US education aren't' resource or efficiency based.
- randomstring 9y agoAnother good book on effective altruism is The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168483-the-most-good-you-can-do https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168483-the-most-good-y... It's clear that Bill and Melinda Gates are practicing effective altruism in an effort to do the most good with their money.