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.
他之所以成为一名高效的利它主义者，是他算出 凭他一辈子从职业生涯中挣来的钱 ---也就是他在大学里挣的薪水--- 他可以捐出足够的钱来救治 发展中国家的8万名眼疾患者，让他们不至失明 而他自己仍然可以留出足够 维持正常生活水平的资金。