Also - shaming people for wanting to make money or liking money is ridiculous. Even if that’s all they are in it for, who cares if the business does something good and worthwhile that people love. I like making money. Try and shame me bro’.https://twitter.com/cyantist/status/1058381847116242945 …
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At the same time, a lot of ppl I've seen with money-affinity ALSO naively rationalize accrual of personal wealth as automagically aligned w/ value creation. 1. Make a lot of money in mostly-rivalrous capitalist order 2. ("miracle" of compound interest occurs) 3. I grew the pie!
2 & 3 aren't super coherent — if you think interest is a miracle, you have no reason to believe you grew the pie!
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It's certainly true that *receiving money* does not mean that you created value, though. Scams are the most obvious example, but arguably you can destroy value on net by doing stuff like creating highly addictive products
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Right, but the chain of culpability & consequence is looong in today's world. And there are many narrative products specifically designed to tell the bourgeois they're OK. (cf Prosperity Gospel)
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