Suppose you ruin the Congolese economy - bright young men and women who would have become doctors and engineers become grain farmers to get in on the magic wind

Suppose you ruin the Congolese economy - bright young men and women who would have become doctors and engineers become grain farmers to get in on the magic window money train. A landlord who owns a building with a magic window on it becomes rich, runs for office, and implements disastrous social policy. The point isn't that trade is actually bad, the point is that you've become an actor, moral or not, in the congolese economy. The attempt to find a single number that makes you good, and not bad, is simply Calvinism minus the theology. You can find out how good you for the world around your accounting statement as effectively as Anubis could find out by putting your heart on a scale.