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 @6dd55ceb As for this: "Effective Altruism aims to reframe philanthropy in terms of both efficiency and ultimate outcomes. Rather, say, than giving a blanket to the freezing person right in front of you, it might make more sense to devise systems to insure specific people get different resources to maximize their long-term chance of impacting the world." -- it's just another form of trickle-down theory.