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drethelin comments on Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: drethelin 17 April 2014 01:16:24AM 7 points [-]

Not all but many effective altruists and certainly the dominant discourse in recent times care about earning to give, ie making a ton of money so that you can give more to charity. Making a ton of money in america has the side effect of giving a ton of money to the us government. If this is evil on net, it might be more effectively altruistic for someone not to make money to give to charity OR the government if you live in the US.