You get effective altruists wrong. They care about the results of their actions. It a philosophy about choosing effective actions about actions that aren’t. It’s not about feeling guilty that some of your actions have no big positive effects.
That means you focus your attention on area where you can achieve a lot instead of focusing it where you can’t do much.
I find the argument that the US would spend less on military when US citizens would pay less taxes questionable. You can’t simply defund a highly powerful organisation like the NSA. Less government money is rather going to be a problem for welfare payments.
In discussions about where an effective altruist is supposed to live it might be a worthwhile point the effect of tax money. Paying taxes in Switzerland instead of the US might be beneficial if you decide whether to life in San Francisco or Zurich.
You get effective altruists wrong. They care about the results of their actions. It a philosophy about choosing effective actions about actions that aren’t. It’s not about feeling guilty that some of your actions have no big positive effects.
That means you focus your attention on area where you can achieve a lot instead of focusing it where you can’t do much. I find the argument that the US would spend less on military when US citizens would pay less taxes questionable. You can’t simply defund a highly powerful organisation like the NSA. Less government money is rather going to be a problem for welfare payments.
In discussions about where an effective altruist is supposed to live it might be a worthwhile point the effect of tax money. Paying taxes in Switzerland instead of the US might be beneficial if you decide whether to life in San Francisco or Zurich.