@redoPop i don’t read it as a broad argument against charitable giving, but i would make such an argument. in specific instances, charitable giving can be plainly virtuous, but often the “side effects” — both to the putative beneficiaries, but also to third parties — far outweigh the benefits. i favor dramatically curtailing oue current (extraordinarily regressive) subsidy to philanthropy, capping tax deductibility at about $10K per person, 20K per married filing jointly.

@redoPop Has the benefit Effective Altruism done by virtue of bednets distributed etc outweighed the harm it has done by taking a generation of elite-educateds and persuading them that participating in and expanding predatory institutions in order to have fortunes both to give and enjoy is better than trying to reform away the predatory institutions? I can’t in any evidence-based way say, but I do have a view on the question.