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The arc of the moral universe is basically a random walk. Occasionally a tech advance makes it slightly easier to be nice and slightly more pointless to be nasty. We then congratulate ourselves for having “evolved.”
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Well, sure, if scarcity leads to competition and conflict, then abundance leads to, well, Cmdr Riker getting it on with space babes on utopian planets, so it becomes a correlation / causation thang. Even private property and financial markets can then be seen as moral “goods”.
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