alt Hacker News> there's a deep sickness here which causes people to flee from the inherent value (relatively modest)
Value is simply the mutual understanding that something should cost a certain amount, and the system we've built emphasizes the need for profit above all else. When a set of companies comes along with a new, impressive technology claiming that they can automate away the white collar workforce, they're trying to capture as much value as they can.
It's not a moral sickness, it's market actors behaving rationally. Believing that people should be willing to leave money on the table because it's the right thing to do is a dead end, the entire system needs a rethink.
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> Believing that people should be willing to leave money on the table because it's the right thing to do is a dead end, the entire system needs a rethink.
I didn’t expect a full throated defense of mugging and burglary on HN this morning, but here we are.
> It's not a moral sickness, it's market actors behaving rationally. Believing that people should be willing to leave money on the table because it's the right thing to do is a dead end
I don't agree that "I am just a market actor behaving rationally" somehow absolves you of any moral duty
I'm not an ethicist or anything but I have studied quite a lot of ethical frameworks and I've never encountered one that I think would agree with this