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after all, for some reasons billionaires donate to new york crimes, so why not for everyone thonk-cri

  • peppersky [he/him, any]
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    10 days ago

    GiveWell calculates that the malaria bed nets are highly effective on the whole, costing “approximately $3,000 to $8,000 to avert a death in locations where GiveWell supports campaigns.” That’s a trivial cost in the scheme of things: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts the “value of a statistical life” in the United States at $7.4 million, in 2006 dollars.

    stress

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    Isn't Effective Altruism a cult run by the rokkos basilisk guy that thinks that the wealthiest people should acquire more and more wealth and have a shit ton of kids because that will produce (somehow) the greatest good for people living 1000 years from now?

    How the hell is this loser getting discussed in the NYT? What is happening

  • culpritus [any]
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    10 days ago

    "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity.

    manhattan