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Do you view all the transactions you've made in your life as taking things from people? So in your mind you've been swindling people your whole life. That's p

• wfo 11y ago
  Or they're taking from you. Or by some freak accident, you exchange things worth the exact same. If someone sells something to me and makes profit, that means it could have been sold to me for less, and they are pocketing the difference. So they are exploiting the fact that I value the thing they are offering at more than it is actually worth to make profit. All profit is this way. Small profits are tolerable, large profits usually have the adjective 'obscene' attached to them because they are inherently exploitative. To make large profits you must either rip off your employees by underpaying them, rip off your customers by overcharging them, or some combination of the two. See, for example, Apple. Enormous profits, how? Exploiting factory workers in sweatshops. Criminally conspiring to drive down tech workers' wages. Combined with overcharging for every product.
  • MrPatan 11y ago
    You're wrong in a very sad way. When you buy something, it's because you value it more than the money you pay for it. When you sell something to somebody, it's because you value it less than the money you get for it. Win-win! And, channeling Carlin: Everybody making less money than you is a loser, everybody making more money than you is an asshole.
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