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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

I'm not an EA and I tend to cause more harm than good to my fellow men.

But I'm still surprised how you treat poverty here. It's not a binary thing that is either "fixed" or "not fixed"; poverty comes in degrees. You have provided no evidence that private charity can't shift the degrees.

Also government can't solve poverty either without causing other costs and harms.

Also governments aren't singletons unless you have one world government that is robust against rebellion. You have got the term wrong.

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Poverty is a political problem

I'm inclined to think (although I lack any familiarity with EA beyond what's readily encountered online) that EA will become a political movement. Just as the rather apolitical ("nonideological") 60s youth movement rapidly became subordinated to organizations run by middle-aged Stalinists--adulating the geriatric Mao--I would bet that EA will become subordinated to some established political tendency--likely of a neoliberal variety. Pure speculation: after all, the real importance of EA scarcely compares with that of the old Students for a Democratic Society.

[Arch supporters of EA (say Robert Wiblin) are known to consistently take the side of the corporations and to preach open borders.]

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