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Re:Renting Horsepower by wiseowise on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:24PM (#35821568)
> Some people really have enthusiasm for nothing but making money.

As long as those people have morals, what’s wrong with that?

Re:Renting Horsepower by kingTug on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:47PM (#35821836)
The people who seem most enthusiastic for giant bank accounts (read: billionaires) seem to lack these morals, by and large.
Re:Renting Horsepower by amelius on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:15PM (#35822179)
The economy is based on too simple rules, hence unfair, hence this is what happens.
Re:Renting Horsepower by flangola7 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:22PM (#35822254)
Greed has long been understood to be fundamentally immoral by many civilizations and cultures throughout history.
Re:Renting Horsepower by airstrike on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:00PM (#35822707)
It has also been understood to be fundamentally inherent to humanity as a consequence of our "need to survive", so trying to regulate it away is just inviting people to skirt said regulation

Since it's unavoidable, the best next thing is to design a system which takes greed as an input and outputs productivity. That system is called Capitalism and that is why it always wins.