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"work for an international non-governmental organization or UNICEF. What you do will actually have a greater chance of changing the world through those organizations."

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Working for a charity will NOT change the world, since charity places are already oversubscribed. There's an interesting Oxford-based thinktank that works on the most effective forms of making a difference called 80,000 Hours. They're quite a good read, I'll leave the link here.

http://80000hours.org/

Great resource. I generally agree and spotted that flaw in my logic as I wrote it, but it wasn't the point of the piece so I left it. There's plenty of ways to change the world, not all relating to charity. My point was that if you want to have a certain positive impact, don't tie it to a vehicle that has a 10 percent chance of success.

I might revisit the topic in another post of what it means to change the world, so I appreciate your contribution.

OT: I find very funny that 80K Hours singles out "banker" as a positively socially impacting career. I guess all those people that were evicted after the housing bubble collapsed don't count :)

Still, being able to borrow money to build a business used to be considered essential for a working economy...

Well, helping at least 1-2 human beings is far more "changing the world" than making a "Facebook for pets", an "Instagram for police mugshots" or a "Dropbox for people literally dropping boxes".

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