A surprising number of people believe that profit is a function of sufficient malevolence.
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Until a few hundred years ago, this was more or less the case. Considering how deeply the idea is embedded in popular culture after all that time, it's not surprising if a lot of people still believe it.
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@abigaildisney line about investing being parasitic is right up there with the dumbest thing I've read this year
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As value flows more easily and quickly, seeking profit becomes beneficial to the individual/entity surrounding environment. Reducing accounting overhead allows for a less skewed revenue distribution
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You need to compare this to the non-malevolence these companies created, such as job security and second income opportunities for maybe a hundred million people around the world who use them, notably the working poor. I wager the non-malevolent outperforms the malevolent on net.
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I think we are most likely evolutionarily selected to keep this as a kind of heuristic in mind when evaluating other people because, as you say, it was the case for a very long part of human history. This creates a negative bias towards profit-makers in many societies.
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Positive sum returns are hard to observe in tribe scale interactions
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It’s not just because of history. Today’s dominant moral values (essentially altruistic values) still hold that anything that isn’t self-sacrificial is at best amoral, and is usually immoral.
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Most people have accepted the false moral dichotomy between cutting other people’s throats (“selfish”) or cutting your own throat (“selfless”), and can’t conceptualize moral values opposed to throat cutting. Profit is moral, but you need to reject the false dichotomy to see it.
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