2023-11-12 20:21:51
Before Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire collapsed, the 31-year-old was not only a supposed prodigy in the tech industry, but also one of the most prominent faces of Effective Altruism (EA). The pioneers of this movement around the Oxford philosopher Will MacAskill call for doing good in the most efficient way possible, which can also mean earning a lot of money as quickly as possible and then donating a lot of it.
Alexander Wulfers
Editor in the economy of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Bankman-Fried praised this idea and explained his entrepreneurial motivation by wanting to donate the majority of his money. This will no longer happen. Last week he was convicted of fraud and now faces up to 115 years in prison.
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