In his TED talk entitled The Why and How of Effective Altruism, Peter Singer compares the various problems that arise from overconsumption in well-developed societies to a concept called the Sisyphus Problem. More specifically, the Sisyphus Problem was named after Sisyphus, a character from Greek mythology who the Gods forced to repeat the action of pushing a boulder up a hill for all eternity. Peter Singer uses this fictional character to illustrate the reality of consumerism in well-developed countries. The problem of consumerism, “the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of…