Robert Reich's Final Essay On The Common Good

"Truth is the most basic of common goods. As the late senator and professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.

"When we accept lies as facts, or illogic as logic, we lose the shared reality necessary to tackle our common problems. We become powerless."

Truth as a common good

The Common Good

"All too often, America honors people who haven’t advanced the common good but have merely achieved notoriety or celebrity or amassed great wealth or power.

"All too often, America shames people for failing to conform to prevailing ideas about fashion or coolness.

"If we’re to revive the common good, we must honor behavior that strengthens the common good and condemn behavior that erodes the common good."

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Resurrecting the Common Good

"Effective Altruism": Is It Against The "Common Good"?

"Effective altruism is an end-run around the common good — a perversion of the civic virtue that the common good requires.

"Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall — and the disconnect between his ends and the means — raises two questions at the heart of our quest to understand what has happened to the common good: What is the role and meaning of civic virtue? And is it possible to be virtuous if our goals are virtuous but the means we choose to achieve them harm others?"

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Samuel Bankman-Fried and the Perversion of Civic Virtue