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I like this policy, but I wonder how long it'll take for it to become controversial. After all, it's the logical compliment to "cancel culture". It goes like th
by dale_glass 6y ago
I like this policy, but I wonder how long it'll take for it to become controversial. After all, it's the logical compliment to "cancel culture". It goes like this:
1. Money is fungible.
2. The one who decides what to do with a dollar is the holder of it.
So, a dollar from a good person and a dollar from a bad person are the exact same thing: a dollar. What only matters is who gets to decide how to spend it. So based on this, the rules for creating moral pressure through economics are:
1. Accept money from bad people. Spend it on ends opposed to their interest.
2. Refuse to give money to bad people. Doing this prevents them from spending it on ends opposed to your interest.
And #2 is pretty much textbook "cancel culture". Eg, don't buy books by Orson Scott Card, because he might spend that money on something unfriendly to LGBT people.
Also, #1 is a bit of a tricky position to take in practice, because it's hard to prove to others what you spent your dollars on, but being friendly with the wrong kind of people easily gets interpreted as being on their side.
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- toast0 6y agoSome people are going to take the position that accepting money from bad people makes you a bad person, regardless of what you do (or claim to do) with the money. NearlyFreeSpeech.net doesn't seem to aim to be the world's biggest low cost host, and their policy is pretty clear. I don't think they would lose a lot of customers if it became known that this part of their policy is in active use.
- kstrauser 6y agoIf #2 is "cancel culture", then we can officially retire that meaningless phrase. Everyone who I'd ever want to spend in-person time with has someone they wouldn't do business with.
- dale_glass 6y agoI agree with that assessment. People have always refused to deal with some other people, and have always tried to get others to follow them in such matters. I don't think anything new or different is going on.