Effective altruism has a strategy problem. Overreliance on a strategy of donating to the most effective charities keeps us on the firefighter's treadmill, continually pursuing the next-highest quantifiable marginal gain. But on its own, this is politically shortsighted. Without any long-term framework within which these individual rescues fit together to bring about the greatest overall impact, we are almost certainly leaving a lot of value on the table. Thus, effective altruists' preferred means undercut their professed aims. Alongside the charity framework, the more effective altruist ought to consider a mutual aid framework, which better acknowledges and honors the unavoidably political commitments of effective altruism to reimagine and remake the world.

有效的利他主义有一个策略问题。过度依赖向最有效的慈善机构捐款的策略，让我们像消防员的跑步机一样，不断追求下一个最高的可量化边际收益。但就其本身而言，这在政治上是短视的。如果没有任何长期框架来将这些单独的救援行动结合起来以产生最大的整体影响，我们几乎肯定会留下很多价值。因此，有效的利他主义者所偏爱的手段削弱了他们所宣称的目标。除了慈善框架之外，更有效的利他主义者还应该考虑一个互助框架，该框架更好地承认和尊重有效利他主义重新构想和重塑世界的不可避免的政治承诺。