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> Then when someone wins the internet lottery, they succumb to their ego and do a bunch of stuff in business to hoard even more wealth, rather than working to r
by chucksmash 4y ago
> Then when someone wins the internet lottery, they succumb to their ego and do a bunch of stuff in business to hoard even more wealth, rather than working to reform the system which keeps so many others down.
It doesn't even have to come down to greed though.
If some meme stock speculation 1000x'd, my family could live off the gains in perpetuity and I could spend all my time working in a soup kitchen, doing good.
But if I instead figured out how to turn that into even more money, I could start a new soup kitchen and help even more people, doing even more good.
But if I instead figured out how to turn that into even more money, ...
- thelastgallon 4y agoIs this effective altruism?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- TeMPOraL 4y agoIt's altruism if GP stops the recursion at some point and actually uses the money to help people and do good. It's effective altruism if they use the money in a smart way, that reasonably maximizes the good it does for others, instead of doing something stupid or just extremely suboptimal.