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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Replying to @cyantist
AFAICT, a lot of people genuinely don't believe that value creation is a real thing that happens. They're modeling the economy in a way that has almost no overlap with reality
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Replying to @webdevMason @cyantist
It seems like a bit split between people who think value is zero sum and those who don’t.
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Replying to @nickarner @cyantist
That's exactly right, IMO. If value/wealth/capital can only be transferred, not generated, then aggregating it *is* selfish — and aggregating it for the purpose of more efficiently allocating it toward further growth is just a self-serving lie
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OK, maybe it's true that a LOT of people have naive understanding of currency and its value in enabling fluid marketplaces, and this leads to a naive rejection of money-affinity as rivalrous greed. 1/
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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!
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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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