Effective Altruism is when you give money to fossil fuel companies

Effective Altruism is when you give money to fossil fuel companies (https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/pq0752/how_about_just_giving_tons_of_money_to_big_oil_to/)

posted on September 17, 2021 09:17 PM by u/eario

u/ArchitectofAges 36 points at 1631918109.000000

The EA commenters also think it’s batshit insane.

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u/solastsummer 50 points at 1631914711.000000

Them: Here’s a ton of money with no strings attached to do good things.

Oil companies: thanks for the money but I’m going to continue to do bad things

Them: oh geez oh shucks oh man this didn’t work huh

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u/dmdbqn -8 points at 1631939938.000000

I meant in one condition that they use it to invest in green tech dude is it that hard to follow

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u/Soyweiser 31 points at 1631955314.000000

And for my next trick, I will make crime illegal.

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u/Citrakayah 25 points at 1631940626.000000

Exxon will just invest in green tech and also continue to extract fossil fuels, which is what they are currently doing.

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u/HarshKLife 14 points at 1631993323.000000

Sigma male epic effective altruism tip #3636: become slaves

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u/Soyweiser 10 points at 1631956150.000000

Yeah im not going to get tangled up in this discussion.

E: content warning for this dudes post history: sexual abuse.

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u/FascinatedBox 5 points at 1631959186.000000

I want to believe this was written as satire.

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