She was an advocate of effective altruism who seems to be part of a conspiracy to have pilfered billions of dollars from investors: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/carolineellison
But what's really interesting about her deleted Goodreads account is the last books she was in the midst of reading:
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Metropolitan Man
If I'm understanding you correctly - which perhaps I'm not - I don't know as I agree. Are you saying that the concept of "effective altruism" is "part of a consp..."?
The concept of effective altruism, as far as I know, is simply to maximize the good-accomplished-per-dollar. In the past, after being pointed there by proponents of effective altruism, I've donated to organizations giving malaria nets, etc.
If you are saying this, I'd appreciate knowing more about what backs up your claim.
But if you're saying that there's some entity cloaking itself as 'effective altruism' but carrying out a Ponzi scheme, then that I'd have no opinion on.
What if she gets much more happy about keeping the money than those it used to belong to?
Then surely this is most effective.
Effective altruism has lead to funny conclusions in the past such as:
Spend all the money on animal welfare (PeTA), or spend no money on the environment (Bjørn Lomborg).
My very uninformed impression of how companies work is something like:
- there is a CEO, who is a guy
- there is a board, consisting of a bunch of guys who are friends with the CEO
- they all have fiduciary duties and if they fail to meet them they will get yelled at by a judge in Delaware
- ???
- shareholder value gets maximized
This is crazy in the same review than the one that's talking about fiduciary duties.
Money is not just numbers on a paper.
She is destroying lives of millions of people.
I guess I'm still struggling with a question of "so what?"
i wonder how long the list of accounts that she cancelled was
And perhaps, in the process of maximizing wealth for good, the goblin whispers in your ear to keep some for yourself.