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>>You're taking a point of concentrated wealth in a system designed to create that concentration and comparing it to 1 individual and using that to support the

• ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  Effective Altruism asks "what's the most I can do?" and come up with the answer, "become a king and give my(!) money I earn(!) to effective charities". That only makes sense if your starting place in the system makes becoming a king possible. Meanwhile, if they asked "what's the most we can do?" then the answer is unlikely to involve kings and more likely involves changing the system that gives them the opportunity to be kings.
  • MrMan 4y ago
    this is going in the right direction, in my opinion.
  • versteegen 4y ago
    > the answer is unlikely to involve kings and more likely involves changing the system that gives them the opportunity to be kings. Certainly true. Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to reach the consensus needed to make such changes to the system. Hence we have to ask instead "What can I do?"
  • ETH_start 4y ago
    Okay, thank you for the explanation. But is "becoming a king" the means that Effective Altruism advocates, or just the means that this individual decided upon to meet EA's larger goal? EA may leave it to each individual to decide the best route to do good for the world. I do agree that changing the system to make becoming a king impossible is the best route possible. But for people in some circumstances, even this goal may best be achieved by first becoming a king.