“We should talk about philanthropy,” Sam Harris says a little more than halfway through Episode #205 of his always-interesting Making Sense podcast last month. Harris is an author, philosopher, and neuroscientist who has written several bestselling books, most recently including Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue with Maajid Nawaz in 2015.
“Obviously, I think we should encourage philanthropy as much as we can. I think it’s just ethically virtuous and necessary, given the state of our world,” Harris continues, speaking to his guest Daniel Markovits. “But when you think about these disparities in wealth that we started talking about in the beginning, you take the top one percent and stratify it with respect to these orders of magnitude, it’s amazing what the super-rich have compared to the merely rich.”
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