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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3622 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 26, 2023

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Ask yourself this, is some sort of abstract sense of "having done something" worth more than real bills in your bank account? Real bills that you can donate to charity, use to help your family, use to help your friends, use to buy your mom gifts? Use to buy your wife things?

Having been presented with similar decisions in life, my answer is, "it depends". I've made plenty of money without doing anything that I think is immoral and I intend to keep it that way. There are jobs that are easier and better paying that I've elected to pass on because I don't think I'd be happy feeling like my money was received by an extractive scam.

That is well and good, but I think it is extremely reckless and self-aggrandizing and myopic and a whole host of other bad things; to tell someone to prioritize their abstract notions of morality which might or might not be well-informed [1] over real money. Which has real potential to make the world better in the desired ways.

Doubling ones salary is no joke.

[1] https://www.themotte.org/post/426/smallscale-question-sunday-for-march-26/79754?context=8#context

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