You Don’t Have to Call Yourself an Effective Altruist or Fraternize With Effective Altruists or Support Longtermism, Just Please, for the Love of God, Help the Global Poor
You Don’t Have to Call Yourself an Effective Altruist or Fraternize With Effective Altruists or Support Longtermism, Just Please, for the Love of God, Help the Global Poor
Regardless of your stance on personal obligation, or on who is causing harm by restricting people's right to transact, wouldn't it be *good* to donate to GiveDirectly? You could help people quite a lot, at a low cost to yourself. Artificial scarcity might not be your fault, and maybe you can't even do anything about it, but you can do something about poor people in Kenya not having enough money to meet their basic needs.
"Mommy, I want to be a libertarian when I grow up."
"Which is it, son? You can't do both."
Regardless of your stance on personal obligation, or on who is causing harm by restricting people's right to transact, wouldn't it be *good* to donate to GiveDirectly? You could help people quite a lot, at a low cost to yourself. Artificial scarcity might not be your fault, and maybe you can't even do anything about it, but you can do something about poor people in Kenya not having enough money to meet their basic needs.