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Comment author: wedrifid 03 October 2013 07:33:40PM 7 points [-]

Should effective altruists care about the US gov't shutdown and can we do anything?

No to the second part. Certainly not without abandoning the "effective altruist" label. The US government is something that powerful entities already have huge motivation to influence. Your motivation to change it is laughably trivial. Comparative advantage.