Summary of William MacAskill's Doing Good Better

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The 1 percent in America are typically referred to as the richest people in the country, and they do receive a large portion of the country’s income. However, this ignores the fact that almost any member of an affluent country has a lot of power.
#2 The world’s income is shown here, with everyone’s income ranked from the poorest to the richest. The space between 0 and 25 percent represents the poorest 25 percent of the world’s population, and the space between 75 and 100 percent represents the richest 25 percent.
#3 Those in the 1 percent earn more than $52,000 annually. If you earn at least $28,000, which is the typical income for working individuals in the United States, you’re in the richest 5 percent of the world’s population.
#4 There is one way in which the $1. 50-per-day figure cannot be fully converted into what $1. 50 could buy in the United States in 2014. In the United States, because there is no extreme poverty, there is no market for extremely cheap goods.

Sujets

• Volunteer Work
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350016321
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on William MacAskill's Doing Good Better
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The 1 percent in America are typically referred to as the richest people in the country, and they do receive a large portion of the country’s income. However, this ignores the fact that almost any member of an affluent country has a lot of power.

#2

The world’s income is shown here, with everyone’s income ranked from the poorest to the richest. The space between 0 and 25 percent represents the poorest 25 percent of the world’s population, and the space between 75 and 100 percent represents the richest 25 percent.

#3

Those in the 1 percent earn more than $52,000 annually. If you earn at least $28,000, which is the typical income for working individuals in the United States, you’re in the richest 5 percent of the world’s population.

#4

There is one way in which the $1. 50-per-day figure cannot be fully converted into what $1. 50 could buy in the United States in 2014. In the United States, because there is no extreme poverty, there is no market for extremely cheap goods.

#5

The fact that we’ve found ourselves at the top of the heap globally provides us with a tremendous opportunity to make a difference. We can do a lot of good at relatively little cost.

#6

The 100x Multiplier is the idea that the same amount of money can do 100 times as much good for the world’s poorest people as it can for typical citizens of America. It’s not often you have two options, one of which is 100 times better than the other.

#7

The world is becoming wealthier, but there are still billions living in abject poverty. This is a result of the unequal economic progress that has taken place over the last two centuries.

#8

The size of the problems we face does not matter. It’s the size of the drop that matters, not the size of the bucket. We can provide a benefit for others that is 100 times greater than the benefit we could provide for ourselves.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The problems in Rwanda began when the Belgian colonialists decreed that, of the native population, the minority Tutsi were racially superior to the more numerous Hutu. This situation changed radically in 1959, when the Tutsi monarchy was overthrown and replaced with a Hutu republic.

#2

Effective altruism is about making hard choices and prioritizing the most worthy beneficiaries. It is not about giving everything to charity, but rather about making difficult decisions about whom we choose to help.

#3

To help you choose which charity to donate to, you must first know the consequences of your actions. To illustrate, let’s say you want to donate to a charity that provides books for children. However, you don’t know if those books actually help children do better in school or enrich families through a better understanding of the world.

#4

The QALY metric was developed to help make decisions about how to prioritize different health programs. It combines the two benefits of saving someone’s life and improving their quality of life, and it allows us to measure the size of benefits that different people receive.

#5