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.
Dia telah menjadi seorang altruis ketika dia menghitung jumlah uang yang dia hasilkan melalui pekerjaannya, sebuah karir akademis, dia mampu menyembuhkan 80.000 orang buta di negara-negara berkembang dan masih memiliki sisa untuk memenuhi kebutuhan hidup sehari-hari.