Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 35 years. The case for Abundance.
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Functional governance and democracy helps many EA cause areas. A thousand small government failures compound into civilizational risk.
This piece is written for the effective altruism community, people focused on finding the highest-impact ways to do good, especially through a lens of whether something is important, tractable, and neglected. I’m giving a version of this piece as a talk at EA Global x DC next week. Effective Altruism has a great track record. In 2023 alone, an EA-backed organization prevented 40,000 deaths and 20 million malaria cases. Another moved over $1 billion in cash directly to the world's poorest families and changed how USAID measures its own effectiveness. But EA has a blind spot: systems change.…
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