Seeing Life in a Day changed the way I see the world, and was a key step in preparing me to be interested in effective altruism when I first heard about it (roughly a year later).
The film shows hundreds of snippets of ordinary life around the world, creating an overwhelming effect of “everyone is basically the same and matters equally” (at least for me). The notion of caring more about people from, say, my own city no longer made any sense to me after the film ended.
Seeing Life in a Day changed the way I see the world, and was a key step in preparing me to be interested in effective altruism when I first heard about it (roughly a year later).
The film shows hundreds of snippets of ordinary life around the world, creating an overwhelming effect of “everyone is basically the same and matters equally” (at least for me). The notion of caring more about people from, say, my own city no longer made any sense to me after the film ended.