Episode Transcript: #930 - Will MacAskill
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So possible one day maybe
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Right now we're live live live cool. How are you sir? Yeah, I'm not too bad. Welcome. Thanks for coming man. Appreciate it
Yeah, no worries. Thanks so much for having me Sam Harris is gonna be with us, but he flaked out last minute
He's a busy man. He's a busy man
So I'm I'm interested to talk to you about a bunch of things
One of the big ones is this idea of effective altruism and this is something that you really promote to the point
I don't know if this is true
But I read this about you that
Everything that you make over thirty six thousand dollars a year you donate. Yeah, that's right. So wow. Yeah, so everything
Above technically it's everything above twenty thousand pounds from 2009 Oxford
So just for inflation cost of living changes and stuff, but that's about thirty six thousand dollars
So you've just sort of decided that which is by the way the one percent for the whole world
Yeah, not quite about two percent. Yeah, I'll be in the top still be in the top two percent even despite
I thought it was thirty four thousand. I think thirty four thousand puts you in a top one percent
I think it's fifty five thousand dollars. Oh, it's a change. Maybe since Trump's been in office. Yeah, that's right
But it's a it's you know what you're doing is if that's really the case. That's a that's a very charitable thing
Yeah, and it's also I mean it's most of my income over the course of my life like especially as an academic
You're not gonna own tons though