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> When you buy something from Amazon, is it an exchange between individuals? Yes. You exchange your labor, divided into an unseen number of customers for anoth
by conanbatt 7y ago
> When you buy something from Amazon, is it an exchange between individuals?
Yes. You exchange your labor, divided into an unseen number of customers for another one's labor, divided into an unseen number of customers.
Remove individual interactions and see everything disappear. Its the building block of society.
- beat 7y agoOk, even if you take humans as the motivating agent... how does it become a moral act? How is an exchange of money for goods/services an inherent good, or an inherent evil for that matter?
- conanbatt 7y agoIs it done under coercion? Is the exchange forbidden, or punished? Is the exchange harming an innocent third party? Is the exchange guaranteed by a third party? etc.