That’s only “longtermism”. EA as introduced by Peter Singer in “the life you can save” is an incredibly sincere and well founded philosophy of charity.
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 months agoPhilosophy Tube have a great video about Effective Altruism. It was some time ago that I watched, but iirc, EA is just “let us do capitalism at our own benefit, because in the future trillions and trillions of humans are going to benefit from it. Don’t mind the planet being destroyed now, and the billions of humans suffering now, everything would be cool in future. Trust me bro.”
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 6 months ago
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 6 months ago
God they just rebranded trickle-down-economics