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Kit O'Connell (Federated)

@AlexanderKingsbury @peterbutler hanging onto that much money fundamentally means you are not doing enough good things with it to offset the harm you are doing.

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AKingsbury

@kitoconnell @peterbutler

"hanging onto that much money fundamentally means you are not doing enough good things with it to offset the harm you are doing."

That seems to change the calculus a bit. It seems like the question isn't how much money you have, but whether or not you're doing more harm than good.

kali yuga fornication
@kitoconnell @AlexanderKingsbury @peterbutler the people who are willing to let it go for the greater good exist, but they are exceedingly rare and their names are quickly forgotten (when was the last time anyone mentioned Charles Feeney on fedi? when was the last time anyone mentioned Elon Musk?), and are inevitably selected against in any system that allows people to not let it go

the cancerous brain-killing blood clot in the economy exists regardless of anyone's moral character
@kitoconnell @AlexanderKingsbury @peterbutler the people who are willing to let it go for the greater good exist, but they are exceedingly rare and their names are quickly forgotten (when was the last time anyone mentioned Charles Feeney on fedi? when was the last time anyone mentioned Elon Musk?), and are inevitably selected against in any system that allows people to not let it go
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