He became an effective altruist when he calculated that with the money that he was likely to earn throughout his career, an academic career, he could give enough to cure 80,000 people of blindness in developing countries and still have enough left for a perfectly adequate standard of living.
Postao je efektivni altruist kada je izračunao da bi s novcem kojeg će vjerojatno zaraditi tijekom svoje karijere, akademske karijere, mogao dati dovoljno da bi se 80 000 ljudi u zemljama u razvoju izliječilo od sljepoće i i dalje bi mu ostalo dovoljno za posve adekvatan životni standard.