Rubenstein, Jennifer. "Forum Response: The Logic of Effective Altruism". The Boston Review, 6 July 2017.

Rubenstein, Jennifer. "Forum Response: The Logic of Effective Altruism". The Boston Review, 6 July 2017.

• The effective altruist movement has great potential to do good in the world, encouraging people to contribute their time and money to causes which are most effective, not those which are the most popular or charismatically appealing. 
• The current structure of effective altruism stresses the importance and necessity of the contributions of the rich to the global power, but marginalizing the role of the poor in both rich and poor countries. Caring for family members and friends with limited resources, as the poor do everyday, is not valued as highly as the anonymous contributions of the rich in effective altruism's calculus.
• The perception of the financial donations of the rich as directly 'saving lives' overlooks the agency of the poor, including those receiving charitable donations. It does not recognize their own role in overcoming poverty.
• The stress of the activities of the rich through charitable donations allows the rich to ignore the ways in which they benefit and ultimately support the economic structures which perpetuate global poverty.
• Effective altruism is well prepared for the initial stage of poverty relief, giving direct aid to the world's poor and providing basic medical care or sanitation. The next step for decreasing global wealth inequality is reforming global institutions to be more equitable, and the rich-driven power dynamics created by effective altruism are woefully unprepared to take on this next challenge.