Toby Ord has been giving away a third of his income for quite some time. A 33 year old academic at Oxford, he allows himself £18,000 a year, and donates the rest to charity.
“I’d always been idealistic about helping others”, he says. “People would say “if you think that why don’t you give all your money to people in poor countries?” I think this was meant to make me shut up.”
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