> I think there is room for thinking about effective altruism I agree, I think effective altruism set up as a private operating thing could work, and if I eve

> I think there is room for thinking about effective altruism I agree, I think effective altruism set up as a private operating thing could work, and if I ever have enough wealth, this is what I am going to operate. Needless to say that all the taxes I can save by doing that helps, at the end, taxes lower efficiency of any task: fewer resources available. > minimize global suffering Things like this, "save the planet", etc. are very problematic. It is impossible to agree on metrics. I think the best way is to let people innovate and deal with the aspects that are known to improve people's lives. For example, I would never open a charity to give food to people and let them go systematically. I do not think that improves people's lives. But I would be willing to open a place where they can study and have a job for people that are in risk of exclusion. That way you make autonomous people. I really think self-reliance and responsibility is undervalued and that it is an active interest of governments not to help you, but to make you fall on a net of dependency on them so that you end up obeying. That is why we are receiving (Spain again, sorry) systematic attacks to property (higher taxes, renting policies, inheritance tax) and at the same time "social helps". Of course this is really bad and make people dependent. I would say that there is no better person to manage a budget that the one that will pay a price for their mistakes, that is ourselves when it is ours. But if we do it wrong, we pay the price anyway for our mistakes. This means incentives are aligned. In other setups the problem is that incentives are not aligned with what we want to achieve, you just have to believe in their good will. That setup is one I really dislike and taxing works basically like that. Even for public institutions that are injected money, when they would be bankrupt or they are not helping achieve their supposed goals they usually just raise taxes and inject more money. This would be seen as an abuse in normal civil life though state does it systematically.