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“No net benefit to society” is your personal value judgement. Other people necessarily made different value judgements when they exchanged billions of dollars i
by closeparen 6y ago
“No net benefit to society” is your personal value judgement. Other people necessarily made different value judgements when they exchanged billions of dollars in value for those things.
- thewarrior 6y agoWell gangsters, heroin smugglers and hit men probably got paid billions of dollars too. Pablo Escobar was one of the richest men in the world. And most of it was not stock but actual cash. Hence the fact that billions were paid for something does not in any way prove that it adds value to society.
- closeparen 6y agoHow has the whole “protect people from their preferences about drugs” thing been working out for us?