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Comment author: Lumifer 11 September 2015 04:23:38PM 1 point [-]

Felix Salomon is being mean to Nick Cooney's book on EA and to EA itself. E.g.:

His book appears to be set in a parallel universe in which philanthropists, just by dint of spending money, magically induce positive change elsewhere in the world.

Comment author: username2 11 September 2015 07:08:36PM *  0 points [-]

why it’s so weird for Cooney to get upset about donations to arts organizations (rather than, say, wasteful expenditures on luxury handbags)

I think that the reviewer misses one of the main points of EA - that from EA perspective those two are closer to each other than any of them is to an actually efficient charity. People already know that buying luxury goods rarely help the world, there is no point of repeating that.

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