{"items": [{"author": "Brice", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582", "anchor": "fb-804339744582", "service": "fb", "text": "where does that money come from ?", "timestamp": "1470698208"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804340513042", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804340513042", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm not sure what you're asking?", "timestamp": "1470698560"}, {"author": "Brice", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804351101822", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804351101822", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Jeff Kaufman i'm sure its a complex question.", "timestamp": "1470702176"}, {"author": "Brice", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804351191642", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804351191642", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Basically you're focusing on what happens to the money after it's been exchanged for your work.
I'm asking: what happened to it before it got to you.", "timestamp": "1470702210"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804361331322", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804361331322", "service": "fb", "text": "→ My company decided it wanted to hire someone to create software to rewrite web pages so they would load faster?", "timestamp": "1470704772"}, {"author": "William", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804366770422", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804366770422", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Brice Google (Jeff's employer) makes most of its money from advertising. I'm not sure what your reason for asking that is though. How is it relevant?", "timestamp": "1470705442"}, {"author": "Manoli", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804397109622", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804397109622", "service": "fb", "text": "→ My interpretation: if your employer is doing significant harm to the world through e.g. natural resource exploitation or human rights abuses, is it doing net good for the world to work for them even with an earning to give strategy.", "timestamp": "1470726646"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804422124492", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804422124492", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @Manoli: We want to compare a world where you take the job and donate to the worlds where you do your other options, taking everything into account including the potential for harm done via your employment. This is difficult enough to compare in general that I typically use two rough approximations:
* Is the specific task you're performing for your employer positive for the world, or at least minimally harmful?
* Is your company on the whole positive for the world or at least minimally harmful on a per employee basis?
So I wouldn't work for a patent troll, for example, even if they wanted to pay me to work on my current open source project, because they clearly think there getting something out of it (better public image?) and I don't want them to do any better than they are.
On the other hand, there are valuable things to do that will fail these heuristics. For example Schindler's work was probably strongly positive on balance even though he was running a Nazi munitions factory.", "timestamp": "1470748141"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804427673372", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804427673372", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"... I wouldn't work for a patent troll ...\"
I'm slightly surprised to hear this. Is it that clear how to weigh the harm vs. potential benefits? (Let's hypothetically say the tradeoff is $40k extra income, of which you'd donate half, with equal job satisfaction.)", "timestamp": "1470751012"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804339744582&reply_comment_id=804433811072", "anchor": "fb-804339744582_804433811072", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @David: I think patent trolls are pretty bad", "timestamp": "1470754256"}, {"author": "William", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804366855252", "anchor": "fb-804366855252", "service": "fb", "text": "Thanks for sharing, Jeff. I listened to all of EA Global's 2015 talks through your links, and will probably do the same with the 2016 talks I don't find elsewhere.", "timestamp": "1470705534"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804366855252&reply_comment_id=804367319322", "anchor": "fb-804366855252_804367319322", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Here are the ones that are up now: http://library.fora.tv/con.../effective_altruism_global_2016", "timestamp": "1470705709"}, {"author": "Pablo", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/804288272732?comment_id=804542014232", "anchor": "fb-804542014232", "service": "fb", "text": "Great talk! Added here:
http://www.stafforini.com/.../writings-on-earning-to.../", "timestamp": "1470806949"}]}