Penny Lane on effective altruism and donating a kidney to a stranger

Penny Lane's new Netflix documentary, Confessions of a Good Samaritan, delves into her life-changing decision to donate a kidney to a stranger.

Lane: "The amount of risk and suffering that the donor is likely to take on statistically is nothing compared to the good that you're doing for another person who's literally dying" The average donor in the United States loses about $4,000 in lost wages, child care.