army1987 comments on Some reservations about Singer's child-in-the-pond argument - Less Wrong

21 Post author: JonahSinick 19 June 2013 11:54PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 June 2013 10:49:23PM 4 points [-]

40 years ago, when Singer first made this argument, shoes were more expensive.

I guess that more than that, saving children was cheaper, because all the low-hanging fruit has been collected. (ISTR reading something about that in a comment on Slate Star Codex or Overcoming Bias sometime in the last few months, but I can't seem to find it now.)