Everything I have ever learned about EA and it's followers has led me to conclude it is perhaps the largest and most complex internal belief system to justify s

Everything I have ever learned about EA and it's followers has led me to conclude it is perhaps the largest and most complex internal belief system to justify stressful amounts of motivated reasoning, so people who have amassed unconscionable wealth can use that wealth to do basically whatever it is that they wanted to do anyway, but with an ideological overhead to shield them from inevitable criticism. It's the peak of this "good billionaire" nonsense where people can aspire to a level of wealth that is, to be clear, unable to be attained without exploitation of other people on an industrial scale, but justify it internally as "well if I do that I can do the most good." It's utter nonsense. It positions the person in question as some sort of arbiter of humanity's future, someone so intelligent and so well rounded as to see the folly of mankind itself as an obstacle to be overcome, not as a collective where we move forward together, but as a personal barrier to what you already know needs to be accomplished. It is arrogance without limit to assume that you personally know better what needs to happen than the total summed knowledge of billions of your fellow man and I cannot take anyone who self-identifies as an EA seriously as a result. You, singularly, are not qualified to "fix" the fucking world, you are not ABLE, let alone currently, to be qualified for that. To be clear: There are TONS of problems that the resources of one of these jackoffs could solve basically overnight. Flint's inability to have clean water is a great example, but just buying a shit ton of pipe and having it installed in a struggling city isn't flashy, it isn't exciting, it isn't paving the way for the future: it's just fixing a problem we know how to fix and that should be fixed, but that isn't enough. You can't put your name on it, you can't get famous off doing it (outside of Flint anyway) and therefore it doesn't get brought up.