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I recently realized that the general public only finds it acceptable to make money off ethically neutral things. Obviously you get resentment when you make your money from vice-related things like selling legal or illegal drugs, gambling, arms or sex work. But you also get pushback when you make money providing good things like healthcare, housing, or medication for a global pandemic killing millions. Capitalism/the invisible hand is only allowed to provide neutral things.


Probably because most people understand money will subvert ethics so the only ways to make money that don't create gigantic moral hazards are the ethically neutral ways.


Maybe there is wisdom in that. Capitalism should have a limited scope. It has a tendency towards uncapped influence.




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