He became an effective altruist when he calculated that with the money that he was likely to earn throughout his career, an academic career, he could give enough to cure 80,000 people of blindness in developing countries and still have enough left for a perfectly adequate standard of living.
오드는 자신이 평생 학자로 일하며 벌어들일 수입으로 계산했을 때 개발 도상국에서 8만 명의 실명 환자를 치료하고도 충분한 생활 수준을 유지할 수 있다는 걸 깨닫고는 효율적 이타주의자가 되었습니다.