There’s been debate on whether earning to give is the best way to be altruistic.
But it seems to me that the real issue is not what is most altruistic but what altruism is. It’s not clear to me that most people mostly agree on what’s altruistic or good—or even if one person is self-consistent in different contexts. Is there some case for this besides just saying “I have this intuition that most people agree on what’s good”? Has there been much attempt by effective altruists to investigate what real people or organizations want?
There’s been debate on whether earning to give is the best way to be altruistic.
But it seems to me that the real issue is not what is most altruistic but what altruism is. It’s not clear to me that most people mostly agree on what’s altruistic or good—or even if one person is self-consistent in different contexts. Is there some case for this besides just saying “I have this intuition that most people agree on what’s good”? Has there been much attempt by effective altruists to investigate what real people or organizations want?