Inside the Growing Movement to Do the Most Good Possible

Inside the Growing Movement to Do the Most Good Possible

Effective Altruism seems fairly straightforward: As a human being, you care about others, and it makes sense to maximise the effectiveness of what you’re doing or giving. It gets interesting when you take it to the extremes: How much money should you keep for yourself, when it could save lives elsewhere? And why just care about people living elsewhere, when there are billions, maybe trillions of future people that deserve our support? In his upcoming book «What We Owe the Future», William MacAskill calls them «the true silent majority». This cover story of the latest TIME Magazine is a great introduction to Effective Altruism and the people behind the movement.


From Weekly Filet #404, in August 2022.

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