The perfect philosophy for the perfect generation. (Effective Altruism : everywhere but at home.)
A report on a peculiar philosophy of our times. It has enabledcountless high-earners and 1-percenters to justify their lifestyles, par-ticularly in technology and financial/quantitative circles. They do soby giving back intermittently to faraway lands, hence our choice oftitle “Everywhere but at home”. We look at its foundations, its mainpromoters, the institutions they are associated with and from whichthey draw their false aura. We argue that Peter Singer et al. may havefinally found a solution to what we call the Galbraith equation : thefitting moral justification of greed. Every age deserves its set of newphilosophies : “Effective Altruism” is that of Facebook, Jane Street,Two Sigma and co..