EA - Effective altruism's billionaires aren't taxed enough. But they're trying. by Luke Freeman

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Effective altruism's billionaires aren't taxed enough. But they're trying., published by Luke Freeman on August 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Dylan Matthews just posted a Vox article "If you’re such an effective altruist, how come you’re so rich?" which addresses critics of effective altruism's billionaires. My TL;DR A lot of recent criticism of EA seems to come from the fact that it has a couple of billionaires now as supporters These billionaires however are some of the biggest donors to US candidates that would increase taxes on them Open support for raising taxes, e.g. Moskovitz tweeted the other day: "I’m for raising taxes and help elect Dems to do it" The broader EA community skews heavily left-of-center (typically supportive of higher taxes and social welfare) Effective altruism was founded explicitly on voluntary redistribution of income from people in high-income countries to low-income countries (e.g. Giving What We Can) and most of the communities founders give a significant portion of their incomes Given that the billionaires do exist, what else would you rather they spend money on? That's just my TL;DR – feel free to put in your own summaries, comments and critiques below. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.