EA - Internationalism is a key value in EA by freedomandutility

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: Internationalism is a key value in EA, published by freedomandutility on August 12, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. With increasing coverage of EA, I’m seeing many critiques on Twitter along the line of “EA billionaires should just pay more taxes” and “philanthropy bypasses democratic processes”. A key value which EAs share and most people do not hold (or at least do not adhere to in practice) is internationalism and the idea that people matter equally, regardless of nationality. I think it’s very important to emphasise this when communicating about EA. Internationalism explains why paying taxes isn’t better than funding EA charities and projects (because governments typically spend