William MacAskill - Caring About Future People Is Common Sense | The Daily Show
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- “Humans are very malleable. People can be inspired to do amazing things.” Philosopher, Giving What We Can co-founder and "What We Owe The Future" author William MacAskill shares his beliefs on the “common sense” importance of helping the future generations, effective altruism and how donating more than 50% of his income isn’t a sacrifice but a reward, and effective ways to fight climate change. #DailyShow #Comedy
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"I don't have a big house, I don't have a fancy car, but I do have wonderful relationships, have wonderful fans, I'm a part of a broader community, inspiring hardworking individuals to impact the world. And I think this is more valuable than anything that money can buy".
Thank you Sir! It's a great takeaway 😇
he definitely said friends, not fans haha
His main protege, Sam Bankman-Fried, just committed a massive $50 Billion fraud and ruined countless lives. Effective altruism is a scam
I love William to bits! And the fact that someone actually sat down and tried to find an explanation for our human instinct of caring for future generations (and there-lack-of for some of us) is so... helpful and inspiring! Thank you Noah (and crew!) for inviting him! My love for the Daily Show grows more and more!
It's his compassion. Compassion naturally breeds strength, honesty, and wisdom.
Compassion is caring for all our fellow Earthlings. Even though we may not like some of them very much. lols
But yea, I'm just hearing him for the first time and he's already one one if my favorite humans ever.😊
This man lives the life he believes in and sticks to his morals. Seeing this really gives me hope that mankind is on track to a better future. I'm a firm believer of giving to those in need and just generally spreading happiness to others. I'd lke to be able to make a larger impact such as William does but I do what I can because I know even the smallest acts of kindness has the potential to improve or even save a life.
@@ghostnike901 he’s a conman just like his acolyte SBF. Inform yourself.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 He's really great. Definitely not a con mam who gave Sam bankman-fried his start and advised his company while they were stealing billions from ordinary people
Thank you Trevor Noah for conducting this marvelous interview. It was splendidly done and, for me, fosters hope in the face of otherwise overwhelming forces. And of course thank you to William MacAskill for his candor, sense of humor, insight, and for sharing his ideas.
Reminds me of 'Some More News'!
I met someone the other week who said he became a vegetarian not for animals but for the environment; animals matter but thinking about eating behaviors on an environmental global scale is so important; Even if you can just go a week, two weeks being a vegetarian, or a vegetarian with a weekly cheat day, it matters.
It's so uplifting to hear someone voice the same moral values and beliefs that I have held my entire life. Care for the future of the planet and all the people here now and in the future. What we do each day will have lasting effects on this earth long after we are gone. So have your bleeding heart for the world, and don't let anyone tell you that you should only care for the people you know.
I love you Trevor! You always speak straight to my heart! Often times your guests do too, he sure did.
Trevor interviews the most interesting thought provoking people
Actual commitment to a better future and those that come after us, not endless CSR/ESR and ineffective COP summits ... Trevor, this might be one of the most important guests you have had on, nicely helped along by classic Trevor humour. I hope it opens a few more minds and gives a bit more hope.
I have been looking for a different book to read AND Prof. William MacAskill's book is what I was looking for (but didn't know it!) so different.. it is revolutionary. Brilliant interview Trevor! Who knew we needed a philosopher who looks 15 yrs old?!😯
You & your staff make my day in ways I don't usually see coming.😁 Your work ethic, talent & comedic skills R top notch, but the best part is that you all R so smart & use your platforms to move the needle towards a better humanity in all of us while making us laugh.. but we R thinking more too.😍 I hope you all have very, very long careers esp. you.. #TrevorNoah 💜 #ThankYou #SouthAfrica 4 entrusting us to love him as much as your country does. We adopted him.. He's our #AmericanSon as well.✌🏾🌹💞🌹
Brilliant. 🙏🏽💙
If we don’t change our ways there may not be many future generations.🌏😓
Bless this man, this is how to people. Take notes.
NATIVE AMERICANS have ALWAYS said protect the earth for the next 7 generations ‼️‼️‼️
Which tribes?
There are over 500
Did they all have this ethos?
The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love your decisions. ♡
Trevor and team are running a mini TED Talk at this point and m loving it
Wow! He's absolutely incredible!!!
Thank you Trevor for asking the right questions.
I agree about the moral obligation.
I wish there are more people like him. He is young but wise.
He was really nervous in this interview, but a few more at this scope, and his message will come across loud and clear (to be fair, I'd be bricking it if I was on Trevor's show, too!)
So you mean that young people aren't wise, what kinda mindset is that?
NOAH is this century's incarnation of the OTHER NOAH, your staff and your interview skills are the ark getting us through this flood. Keep it up!
Absolutely love, admire, respect this young man. ı have a long way to go to help like him but still I think I quite do a bit.
I also think thst people should be more honest about their love for their children, grandchildren, or for any young person they care for. Love is not limited to today, is not a bundle of letters. We have to show it by our actions and the future is slso part of it.even if one does not have money to spare lots of things can be done without money too
I believe in ethics for it will not change but the law changes. He clicks on the right button to save future generations
“People should treat other people like people”
“But how do we get everyone to agree?”
Thats a trillion dollar question
You can't but you can do your best to not only think of your own self interest. But hopefully throughout your lifetime you can some of the things you have attained. Hopefully in oder to help some others.
One of the best interviews!!
We as individuals can certainly put bad companies down the drain if demand stops. Aside from going vegetarian/vegan like it is just some fad, every other lifestyle choices from going waste-less, buy less, being less materialistic, to being selfless in terms of selfish convenience can certainly help a lot. Choose brands and products that meet those goals and hope for the day when ALL corporations place moral sustainability above profits alone.
Yes! We are all precious as individuals, and yet we all stand on the shoulders of all of society and all of our ancestors, and therefore are collectively responsible for the health and well-being of not only our human society, but of all our fellow Earthlings too. Besides, who would simply give up on our childrens future? No person is an island, and freedom is the responsibility of each of us as individuals to support the freedom of everyone.❤🌍🌎🌏
What a great guy!
We need govt subsidies for homeowners to go solar and pro environment home upkeep. Most people in their 50s even can’t afford to convert.
We also need the utilities companies to be stomped on, hard, so they modernize the grid and accept the fact that they aren't there to generate profits, they exist to generate electricity/water/etc., which means the politicians we elect need to be held to task as well, or booted out asap.
Home owners get some of the biggest subsidies already and most people under 40 can't even afford a home. Individuals going solar won't solve our issues. It will help. But only a little and not nearly fast enough. It's a individual by individual solution to a global problem and won't work.
We need a systemic large scale change in power generation by truly public utilities. Solar panels on houses take more time, money, and CO2 expenditure to install per kilowatt hour than building a green energy plant for the entire area.
They are great right now for distributed power sources on an old and flakey grid. But they don't help renters, high rises, people too poor to afford them even with subsidies. Ect.
That said I would do both infrastructure and home solar subsidies if I could.
They should make a program to sponsor a persons housing for 5 years. Enough time for them to really get back on their feet. While they worked on schooling, saving money, paying off debt, medical issues, mental health and/or substance abuse recovery.
Welcome to Finland 🇫🇮
@@RippleDrop. Is this something they do in Finland?
I think it is finland where they give the homeless… get this… HOMES!
Positive outcomes, too!
There are those that fall back into trouble… but it's to be expected.
@@DireDesirez it was a country in that region… I know for sure.
I haven't checked up on it in some time.
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Awesome interview!! Very cool to see him here and Will nailed the interview :)
He does a great interview with Dax Shepard on a recent armchair expert podcast episode. Worth a listen
That's how I learned about him!
Search "Giving What We Can" which Will MacAskill co-founded and make your own pledge to donate to effective charity
Very brilliant work here
The question I have, coming from a skeptical part: How many of those wealthy people who joined the group would stop if we changed the tax system so it wasn't deductible?
I agree with him to care about future people in the long run does make sense you're trying to care for a next generation you don't want them going through what we went through you want them to deal with their own set of problems rather than those set of problems plus what we didn't solve.
Thank you for the light!
YES SIR! And thank you 😊
Can't believe you are leaving daily Show Trevor, watching you makes me believe in my dreams more🥰
Especially when you think of how many people give 10% of their income to tithes
I don't go to any church but I've read the Bible over and over. Christians are not under any scriptural obligations to give tithes. Any religion that preach or encourage tithes are either extorting their members or using it as a means to stay in business and of course profits.
Giving to religions is going in the wrong direction.
@@bilguana11 I know, that was my point
@The Fires of Mount Doom Churches are master abusers of the system with little going to help humanity. Tax the churches.
Amazing and inspiring
The Future People are Us - Lets Start Molding a Beautiful Now & Future - and so it is - Blessings.
It’s not so common sense when so many people just don’t care
That's why you have governments, the systems are already in place, its called taxes. Make people pay the needed amount, especially rich people, boom, there you have it "donations".
More people care than do not care. But they don't so easily make the news, do they?
@@Ketraar Careful, you might be called a SoCiAlIsT by republicans these days. More to the OP's point, look how republicans approached the pandemic - they absolutely did NOT care for anyone but themselves, and people lost their lives because of republican's "sense of entitlement", and was probably the main reason why trump lost, but look what took place because he lost! The world has gone nuts, and it ain't gonna get better any time soon :(
WoW 😮 keep up the great work 👍✌️
I live in MO and Trevor Noah is the only thing standing between me and everybody I know finally convincing me I've Iost my mind
You haven't lost your mind, you're here watching Trevor Noah helping to keep you perfectly perfect and in tune :)
Professor, thank you for all you are doing for humanity. I hope as much as you are encouraging those who have been privileged to give a percentage of their income for humanitarian and philanthropic causes, you are also instilling values of transparency and accountability to the recipient communities. This would encourage the givers, right?
Love it!
I love watching ur show
Our children & the children of their children IS the future
Such an inspiring guy!
Thank you Professor, from Arthur and Linda McAskill. Need to be better stewards of ocean and land.
Instead of limping along with deciding 'how much,' "how to regulate it' or 'how to track ROI'(?) we can achieve immensely more by bypassing the aspect of ‘competitive income', by focusing with how we’ve now evolved more than enough technology, data, & wealth to provide every human being (as well as members of all other species) with safe water, regulated sanitation, sustainable nourishment & energy, unlimited education & sound shelter aka the "Universal Basic Provisions" each individual needs to sustainably LIVE! In turn, providing a societal culture focused on everyone’s capability of evolving into the best version, of themselves they can be, no longer hindered by the pressures & struggles of basic survival.
Yesss
Logical as well as kind
It would be nice if more of our society wasn't driven by greed and bottom lines. Overall, I think we'd be a happier species.
I'm already in a place where I have to decide between rent and food some weeks.
10% of my income is the difference between a roof over my head, or a bridge.
My goal in life is to attain any form of financial stability where I can afford to invest and donate. If I could, I would donate absolutely everything I don't need. Money is nothing but a means of survival to me.
Same! If I could give money to charities, I would, but as I'm currently on unpaid medical leave from work, I have NO monies!
effective altruism does not mean giving away money you need to survive! if you don't have the slack, don't try to share the slack you don't have - taking care of yourself enough to survive is enough. if later you're making enough that you have the slack, then think about how to most effectively help the people who are still in situations like the one you're in now.
FWIW I'm absolutely sure Will would not want you to think you have an obligation to give money you need for your own basic needs!
@@royalewithcheese17 Yeah, guess what: Socialists want to change that.
Yeah, guess what: Socialists want to change that.
Thank you very much William Macaskill, the whole world should listen to this.
Reminds me that Bob Dylan sold his music titles and copyrights recently, and I haven't heard that he split any of that $500 million….yet this man did sing of love and altruism all his life...
if anyone knows Bob Dylan's email, send him this episode!
Islam calls it zakat i.e. 2.5 percents of your income should go to charity. William is somehow reminds me as moslem to do more not only to give more from what I have.
Islam is 2.5%? Well, the pastors tell me 10% and I don't understand that greed.
I believe you give out your all to support and not base nothing on percentages, like what Jesus Christ taught in the New Testament.
I don't do any 2.5 or 10%. I support if I can and try my best possible to support well too.
What an amazing young man-and interview.
As a philosopher, he should know common sense isn't common unless common is practiced. people lack sense
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The way I see it, money is not the only resource to be donated... service can be donated too. Volunteering at a food bank, homeless shelter, helping the elderly... all of these are needed commodities. I think society is better off when people get involved.
Volunteering time is great too! Donating money (to the highest impact charities, i.e Give well) though can have more impact. This is due to the economic concept of comparative advantage - just as an electrical engineer is bound to earn more working as an electrical engineer than as a social worker, so is his work bound to create more value if he donates money he's earned engineering than volunteers the time. Similarly, you can only do so much in your own community. It's tens of thousands more to save a American life than a West African life via the Against Malaria Foundation MacAskill recommended.
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We are a family under one sky. 🕊🌎🕊🌍🕊🌏🕊Sustainable living, Earthship Biotecture.
If you take into consideration the possibility of reincarnation, we are creating a world for our "FUTURE SELVES". Would you do better if you knew that it is YOU who would be facing the consequences in a different body in the next century? I absolutely love this conversation because I believe that we should be making a more conscious effort to build a better world for the future. Not just with climate change but with mental health, conflict resolution and how we treat each other (especially women).
Love this conversation!
I have the answer to Williams question, look at Bjorn Lomborgs work on which are the best issues to prioritize with cost effectiveness.
In some parts of the world you can't even afford housing for a family with a gross income of $ 60,000. And then there are retirement plans, savings for emergencies, exploding utility costs, sky-rocketing costs for higher education in some places, crippling costs for the care for the elderly in rapidly ageing developed societies... Most of us already are forced to moderation, and for most people in Europe or the US with normal family incomes who are 20+ years senior of professor MacAskill, his idealistic suggestions are naive or even cynical. Giving to charities, not matter how effective they might use their funds, also doesn't change a wee bit about the root causes of the trajectory of multiple crisis we (as mankind) placed ourselves on. Charities are mere bandaids on a rapidly spreading septic wound.
I am all in favor of altruism by "normal" people, but billionaires philanthropy is not so benevolent. No one elected a billionaire to spend what should be public resources on their personal priorities, plus they get huge tax breaks and enormous PR benefits. Much better to greatly increase marginal tax rates on the richest, or at least require some large share of their philanthropy go into some kind of public trust to be divvied up by a diverse board of citizens.
Does anyone in EA know which organisations Will refers to at the end? The most effective non-profits working on new tech.
E.g Clean Air Task Force
Nawaooo 😀
I mean, if you already have 1 billion dollar and you only keep 1% of that, that's still 10 million dollars, you're left with. That's still plenty above a threshold, where more money doesn't improve your life anymore.
He is very cute
Well you can't take it when you die! So give it to someone that desperately needs it, where can I get in line?
listen to Sadhguru..
he is right on POINT..!
THANK YOU , MUCH LOVE..♥️
Trevor come back to SA!
Wealth gap is the litmus test on social morals.
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He is essentially talking about sharing, and an investment in the future.
What so many people refuse to admit is that somewhere in the past someone invested in the future that is our present-day existence.
None of us were birthed into a world that was already spontaneously made.
Someone **at some point in the past** made a contribution or investment in the future that would make life for future generations (whom they would never meet) easier. And we *DO* have a responsibility to make the same contributions towards and investments in the future for generations that **we** will never meet..😒
dude is so cute and caring it makes me want to act unwise
He is so positive ❗
Fan of Rorty? Ask questions that we can answer?
If you're interested in learning more about this, you might like to look up the non-identity problem.
Humanity....malleable, very much so....
We have a existential obligation not morality
So when you ask people to pay taxes its a big no no, but "giving it a way" is fine? Just have rich people pay taxes and make sure they are redistributed right so it gets to places where needed, this is not rocketsurgery!
Some people are dead set on the idea that if you don't have a choice in how the money is spent taxation is theft. I am not one of them. I don't know how many more you will get with "then actually donate substantially large amounts to effective charities rather than your PR charity that pays your friends and family to work there."
Indeed. Over tha last half century or so re-distribution has shifted from rich to poor to the opposite. Rich massively gets richer, poor gets poorer. The tax system should balance inequalities and enable mutually beneficial investments into the future. MacAskill's idealism strikes me as somewhat suicidal, especially in our time. What if you come from a position of privilege, give away all your "extra" money, and then you end up in a situation where you are sick, disabled, unemployed, have three children, a mortgage, perhaps elderly parents who require care, but there are no reserves, all extra money of the past was given to charity? For low and middle incomes that is a very likely scenario. MacAskill strikes me as someone who never was struck by panic after reading a bill from his dentist. In principle I like his idealism, but it feels like the idealism of a dreamy child drifting about in balmy air within a pink soap bubble. The tax system needs fixing. Economic incentives must change. Urging ordinary people who already are stretched thin to give more to charity isn't a solution to anything (and hey -- ordinary people already give a LOT to charity!).
Love the term "rocketsurgery" btw.
Or he could try to convince those billionaires to pay their employees a living wage by giving up a small fraction of their income instead?
The majority of the US workforce isn't employed by billionares.
@@dewaldt8104 and? What does that have to do with asking the billionaires to pay their employees a living wage? Where do I say he needs to ask the billionaires to make sure the majority of the US workforce was paid a living wage?
@@paolacresti6432 well the term living wage doesn't really have an objective meaning.
Along with that if you want to get paid more, learn valuable skills that will get you paid more.
@@dewaldt8104 the only reason it doesn't is because cost of living varies from place to place.
"living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs
Needs are defined to include food, housing, and other essential needs such as clothing."
Middle to lower income give charity up to 60 %
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Patagonia
Dark mother 82
The best part about being a politician is that the unborn don’t vote.
Yeah, that's a funny thing about being a semi-formed glob lacking mature thalamocortical connections.
"we should put the fossil fuel companies out of business". Another example of really smart people saying really dumb things. Fossil fuels literally sustain our lives and putting them out of of business would literally cause massive starvation and death. You wouldn't have to worry about climate change because you would already be dead.
I love that fact his ancestors left him the bill to pay and he wants us to chip in? 😆
"Dark mother 82
"You're not just young, your very successful . . ." WOW!!! I thought Trevor Noah was just a second (or third) rate comedian, but it so gratifying to see him pushing new-age/get rich scams like William MacAskill.
One way to fix a lot of the worlds problems is to unite and work together. Another way is to get rid of money entirely and go to a resource management economy where we prioritize what will use the majority of our resources. No one will be able to waste a resource just because they have the money to do so.
We could regulare resources and waste but to actively manage what goes where is a very hard task and slow to do from a centralized place. For instance we can regulate limits to the max water usage and which states get how much water. But we don't regulate who can choose use their water for pools, or how much they turn into beer. Or how much of a farmer allotment goes to grapes instead of cherries.
Having things decentralized is better for stability and accountability as well as distribution so long as we set limits to over production and waste. Or actually share the surplus so it isn't wasted.
@@LC-sc3en I don’t believe that at all. I never said that it would be one entity that controls where our resources go. We can control our resources much better by deciding as a global group of people what is most important to us. We definitely have people wasting valuable resources on frivolous things for their own monetary gain or even just so they can have it. We have a lot of resources still so we wouldn’t be sacrificing much. Do you personally need a 10 room mansion, $10 million boat, 6 cars, a car that drives 200mph and to horde more wealth than 10 families combined? No you need non of that to survive. Instead we have tons of people that over consume and leave their waste lye about while millions of others live paycheck to paycheck or worse in poverty.
Do it Trevor. You're thinking about it. 😂🤣💙
He's like a modern day Jesus. Gives me hope for the future
For context on what he’s actually saying, if someone had 50 billion dollars, and they gave away 99 percent of that over their life, they’d still die with half a billion dollars. That’s very very appropriate.
He also talks about giving "anything above $ 35.000". When living in Europe or the US an annual income in that range already is relative poverty, especially for a family with several children, sick or disabled family members, exploding costs, with financial emergencies always lurking around the corner.
Trevor, you millionaire 🧐
Between Trevor and I, he is the one that could've 50% of his salary away.
Yes, he is worth over $100 million. But we need to remove the planks from our eyes before we point out the specks in others' eyes. Speak the truth, but be introspective and take action.
@@imnotlettingyouseemyname - And there you are. Half of $100 million is $50 million. Not too shabby. Half of what I got, puts me in the street. But hey, thanks for the mini lecture, ..... as if you understood the whole video and I got nothing out of it. Referencing the Bible while making an unfounded assumption is rude and NOT helpful.
Dont donate so much. Use it for your local community and help people around you. I worked for so many international organisations based in Europe and they abuse the donations. Please put your money into local projects. Buy school supplies, build something for a community or help someone with clothes or food.
Whenever you are giving you need to research who you are giving it to well. Local is easier because you can donate and get directly involved to try to see how well it is spent. But small local organizations also have corruption so do your work as well.
I knew a lady who embezzled from the girl scout troop she ran.
No caring about myself is common sense, others benefitting from it is the side effect