Doing good better: An event with Will MacAskill

Wednesday I went to an event called “Doing Good Better: An event with Will MacAskill”. Nearly 190 people attended this event quite interesting.

Will MacAskill is an Associate Professor in philosophy at Lincoln college in Oxford.

He cofounded two non-profits: “80 000 hours” –which provides research and advice on how to make a difference through your career-, and “Giving what you can” –encouraging people to commit to give at least 10% of their income to the most effective charities-.

These organisations helped to spark the effective altruism.

During his talk he tried to explain us how to make the most difference with the time and money at hand.

He shows us some social programs –like the Play pump, or Scared straight which is a program for juvenile delinquency in which they give a tour in prison to show how the life is hard in there….but this program is actually leading to more crimes, rapes …than before- that deviated from their main goal.

After that he explained us a simple way to help people all around the world without much effort, for example using his non-profit organization “Giving what you can”.

You can read more on his book Doing Good Better – Effective altruism and How you can Make a Difference-.