The Harvard EA blog

I want you to help save a life this summer. This year, 440 of the 550 members of the class of 2016 took jobs from private firms attending EIP, myself included. The overwhelming majority of these are very well paid: $3,000 a week in the major markets. It is a telling indicator of the vast economic privileges given us. But it also affords our class one of the greatest opportunities to serve the poor and oppressed that we so often chide the system of overlooking, yet so seldom prioritize with our own time and money.

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Suppose I told you about an investment that would easily generate a 60x return in a few years with very little risk.  And then I tell you that some of the world’s top economists have looked at the opportunity and agreed with me.

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For people systematically chosen for being able to root out and analyze the rationality of arguments, lawyers are pitifully bad at being reasonable. Let us look, for instance, at the current theories about what to do with your law degree.

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