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by skinnymuch 1304 days ago
We don’t know what else could happen with the example. Maybe a finance professional would have become a socialist and put their own effort in for societal improvements alongside donating.
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Totally! And this is why evaluating whether a movement like EA is good or not is really hard.

In general, for hard questions like this, I take a “know them by their fruit“ approach, I.e. seeing how folks do on easier-to-evaluate ethics tests, like whether someone is vegetarian or vegan. By that light, the movement comes out looking pretty good. If you apply a more anti-capitalist test, the movement does not look so good.