paul-crowe
commented
1 year ago Example: Pete Mills: socialism is good
Summary: Working to earn means operating within, and propping up, the capitalist status quo.
Date: May 2012
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- EA should be tackling capitalism (25th Aug 2015)
- Response to the above (August 31, 2015)
- Effective Altruism and Anti-Capitalism: An Attempt at Reconciliation (Jan 2017)
- It's a mistake to think capitalism = selfishness and socialism = benevolence (15th Sep 2017)
- Overview of capitalism and socialism (16th May 2019)
- Unpopular criticism of capitalism, or perhaps just lazily composed (10th Dec 2019)
- "Many EAs, me included, are pretty sympathetic to capitalism as an economic system – certainly much more so than many other communities that place a strong emphasis on helping others." (16th May 2021)
- "EA makes it easier for the capitalist system to obscure the real causes of its crises." (22nd Aug 2022)
- "we look past the fact that this is exactly the reason capitalism in its core perpetuates inequality, and that we are now importing this rotten habit into the third sector without making sure to properly debug it first" (16th Sep 2022)
- "There’s already a form of effective altruism, and it’s called socialism. [...] What are some of the best reasons to be a socialist? For one, the movement isn’t based on morally repugnant arguments that either have to be downplayed or dressed up with evasive language. And secondly, it is inclusive of all people, especially those who have been harmed by capitalism," (19 September 2022)
Example: EA disregards the kinds of systematic actions needed to affect social change'
Summary: EAs treat the symptoms, not the disease. And the the disease is CAPITALISM. Or, y'know, institutions more deep-rooted than anything EA tries to change.
Date: 12th Jun
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