From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm David Marquesie.

Maybe it sounds corny, but in my own little way, I really do try to make the world a better place.

I think about the ethics of what I eat. I donate to charity. I give time and energy to helping those less fortunate in my community.

And according to Peter Singer, those efforts pretty much add up to Bubkiss.

Singer is arguably the world's most influential living philosopher.

His work grows out of utilitarianism.

The view that a good action is one that, within reason,

maximizes the well-being of the greatest number of lives possible.

He spent decades trying to get people to take a more critical look at their own ethics

and what well-meaning comfortable people can actually do to make the world a better place.

His landmark 1975 book Animal Liberation

helped popularize vegan and vegetarian eating habits.

His new book, Consider the Turkey, builds on those ideas

as a polemic against a Thanksgiving meal.

And his writing on what the wealthy owe the poor,

which is a lot more than they're giving,

was an important building block

for the data-driven philanthropic movement known as effective altruism, which has gotten a lot more than they're giving, was an important building block for the data-driven philanthropic movement

known as effective altruism,

which has gotten a lot of attention recently

because of some of its high-profile adherence in Silicon Valley,

including the disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried.

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