Moral trade

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The following was copied from Moral Trade - Cause Prioritization Wiki. Feel free to edit at will.

Toby Ord’s “Moral Trade” outlines how moral trade might work.

Moral trade is one of several ideas that takes an idea from the for-profit world and creates an analogue in the non-profit world.

When moral trade takes place with oneself, it is just moral offsetting.1

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  1. Carl_Shulman comments on What is the expected effect of poverty alleviation efforts on existential risk?.↩