“Why I Just Took The Giving What We Can Pledge” by Bentham’s Bulldog

Crosspost of my blog article.

I just took the Giving What We Can pledge, which is a pledge to give away at least 10% of my income over the course of my life to highly effective charities. I think you should take it too!

We live in a time of unprecedented prosperity and abundance. Americans today live like kings in the ancient past. We have access to technology that would have been considered magic even just a few hundred years ago. Even relatively poor Americans are richer than nearly everyone who has ever lived.

At the same time, the world is filled with huge and pressing problems. Children whose parents survive on two dollars a day die in their beds, because their parents can’t afford medical care. Animals by the billions are tortured in factory farms. Existential threats imperil the entire future.

For this reason, I pledged to take [...]

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First published:

July 25th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jherCCFLzvZLnRvXW/why-i-just-took-the-giving-what-we-can-pledge

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