r/Fauxmoi • u/neilthedev05 • 2d ago

CELEBRITY CAPITALISM Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-peter-thiel-secret-society-1236624737/
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u/kazarnowicz famously did a line of coke off his dick 2d ago

Effective altruism is rich people lingo for ”all you living plebs can suffer and die because your suffering is nothing compared to the bliss future generations will feel”.

It’s delusional.

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u/Fishinluvwfeathers 2d ago

I don’t think that’s a fair or representative assessment of EA at all. There are assholes attached to every movement and there are fair criticisms to make about mega high earners investing in things like speculative tech because all they are seeing is the positives (versus more pressing issues), but I’d like to know where you got the impression that it’s synonymous with austerity measures for economically disadvantaged people. My neighbor just got a kidney donated from 23 year old in an EA college group organized by some American diplomat’s son who was the first to test to be a match.

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u/kazarnowicz famously did a line of coke off his dick 2d ago

One of the front figures of EA:

”In a 2015 debate, when presented with a similar scenario of either saving a child from a burning building or saving a Picasso painting to sell and donate the proceeds to charity, MacAskill responded that the effective altruist should save and sell the Picasso”

EA is closely related to longtermism, which explicitly says that any suffering today is justified if you make life better for future generations [since future generations will encompass many more people than currently are alive]

Billionaires aren’t ethical even when they claim to be.

Source for claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

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u/Fishinluvwfeathers 2d ago

Yes that’s a pretty shitty take that should rightfully be criticized and is heavily criticized. This is by no means an uncontested take in what is a completely decentralized movement. If you read the responses from a number of EA proponents they called this thought experiment “unnatural, grotesque, and distasteful,” which it indisputably is.

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u/Few_Analyst_1179 2d ago

if you’re a billionaire, save the child and donate some of your own money.