I feel the need to remind you that the Effective Altruism community is also moving billions of dollars to substantially help the extreme poor.

And the original commenter is wrong, 91% of people do have access to basic hygiene (i.e. hand washing facilities), according to https://ourworldindata.org/hygiene

And only 28% of people suffer from moderate to severe food insecurity: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-with-...

So really most people have the basics covered.

Only 28%? That's over 2 billion people.

> I feel the need to remind you that the Effective Altruism community is also moving billions of dollars to substantially help the extreme poor.

The Dutch government alone spends $5B per year on aid to the poorest country, and The Netherlands is a small country. Effective Altruism is just a guise to get political influence through capital.

It doesn't even have to be a scheme. It's just selfish and greedy people trying to rationalize their selfishness and greed by being even more selfish and greedy.

Of course people who already think they are god's divine gift to the world will think they would be the best to give out or pick the recipient of billions in charity over a more democratic system.

>Only 28%? That's over 2 billion people

But wasn't that in direct response to the claim that most people did not have that access? It feels like either a misunderstanding or mischaracterization of what they were saying.

I don't see the connection.