{"id":35638,"date":"2023-10-05T06:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=35638"},"modified":"2023-10-05T06:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:56:52","slug":"the-philanthropists-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/the-philanthropists-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"The philanthropist\u2019s stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy Schiller makes her living advising on how to do philanthropy well. And she has written a book suggesting the approach to most modern philanthropy is fundamentally misguided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main problem she sees is that it seeks a \u201cscientific\u201d approach to address poverty, ill health, and the other basics of life as effectively as possible, often referred to as effective altruism.\u00a0 The Mint asked Amy what was wrong with that and what the alternative might be.\u00a0 The answers turned out to revolve around what it is to be human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Schiller makes her living advising on how to do philanthropy well. And she has written a book suggesting the approach to most modern philanthropy is fundamentally misguided.\u00a0 The main &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2496,2390,2466,388,2508,1789],"class_list":["post-35638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-amy-schiller","tag-effective-altruism","tag-humanitarianism","tag-philanthropy","tag-sept-2023","tag-utilitarianism","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}