> But effective altruism supplies no plan for the elimination of poverty itself, and there is no way for a feasible plan for that goal to be developed and imple

> But effective altruism supplies no plan for the elimination of poverty itself, and there is no way for a feasible plan for that goal to be developed and implemented by this method of reasoning at the margin. Except if you look at actual EA organizations they are not “reasoning at the margin” when it comes to global poverty. GiveWell is targeting global health, which can absolutely be solved with donations (vaccines, for instance, don’t require changes to societal structure to eradicate diseases). Open Philanthropy tackles more structural issues such as criminal justice reform - but they aren’t doing something “marginal” like donating to bail funds. Instead, they’re donating to organizations which build grassroots movements among crime victims and formerly incarcerated people and funding pilot programs for alternatives to prisons.