alt Hacker NewsYou shouldn't be punished for being financially intelligent. You are conflating corruption with financial competence.
We don't stop athletes who use the gym regularly from competing because all the guys using steroids also went to the gym a lot.
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catigula • today at 3:13 PM
You aren't being punished, nobody is forcing you to run for Congress.
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> You shouldn't be punished for being financially intelligent. You are conflating corruption with financial competence.
And you're conflating "being financially intelligent" with "being primarily motivated by profit and personal gain".
A conman is often "financially intelligent", too, but what they're inclined to do with that intelligence matters.