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I'd say "caring only about money" is the complete absence of ideology since it just chases personal benefits. Just operating on basic instincts using more sophi
by JamesianP 4y ago
I'd say "caring only about money" is the complete absence of ideology since it just chases personal benefits. Just operating on basic instincts using more sophisticated mental skills. There are some who claim that they engage in such behavior because profit-maximization is for the moral good or whatever, but I wouldn't make that as the default assumption.
As for the "weirdness" you refer to, the company was arguing that banks indeed do not care only about money, but impose costly political agendas too. Hence the supposed value proposition.
- nicoburns 4y ago> I'd say "caring only about money" is the complete absence of ideology since it just chases personal benefits. Chasing personal benefits is also an ideology! One in opposition to the ideology that suggests we ought to work for benefit of others as well as ourselves. As is the idea that people's "basic instincts" are to chase personal benefits is too. If you don't believe me, try hanging out with a small child (under 4) and see how selfless and generous they are.
- JamesianP 4y agoYou're giving an example of a child not motivated by ideology to prove everything is an ideology? Or is the example to show that everything can be instinctive too? If so how can you argue with certainty that anything is ideology? What if the banker considers those choices made in financial self-interest to be against their own personal ideals (of being selfless etc) but did it anyway?