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2026-04-13 13:13 UTC

I spent some time yesterday noodling about Amy Schiller&#39;s THE PRICE OF HUMANITY and the questions it raised for me about US higher education’s interpellation into the ideology behind Effective Altruism. https://kfitz.info/humanities-philanthropy-good-life/

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@ryan@hcommons.social 2026-04-13 13:39

@kfitz "And higher education has been so completely subsumed in the flows of capital that today what makes not only education but students themselves valuable is their future productivity rather than their capacity for thought, creativity, and care." So true! Now replace "higher education" with "society" :( Definitely adding this book to my reading list and then suggesting it to a little book club I'm in.

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@jim@charities.place 2026-04-14 14:13

@kfitz definitely adding that book to my reading list. I’ve been wary of effective altruism for some time: https://www.empathyforward.org/2023/10/the-role-of-effective-altruism/ I’ve also been advocating for more humanities in software development as well. The drum I beat these days: everything we do with computers ties back to some human need. We need to understand that need to do tech well. That’s why I love the DH community.

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