Best Charities Are Hundreds of Times Better

People wrongly assume the best charities are only about 50% better than typical ones, but in reality the best organizations are hundreds or thousands of times more effective—antimalarial bednets save hundreds of times more lives per dollar than cancer treatment, factory-farm corporate campaigns help thousands of times more animals than pet shelters, and man-made pandemic risks dwarf natural risks like asteroids by perhaps a thousandfold.