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> we should do things that are good because we can If I hire you to fix my car I’m not paying you if instead you fix the neighbors car

rektide 4y ago
ah yes, the beautiful zero-sum view of the world, where no one does anything positive ever unless the blood price is paid. thank you for your shitty shit view. looking at it the other way, a repair shop could just, like, add some washer fluid for free. or clean some wipers to help the life. good repair shops do, because they understand some small benevolent acts cost next to nothing. not everything needs to be a brutal & cold calculated exchange, priced at every point. good is allowed. sometimes it costs intensely little. i've heard this condescending bullshit used to browbeat & bully countless ideas that would make everyones lives vastly easier within an org. i dont think a mutual benefit ought be required to do a little good; sometimes the price of doing good is just tiny. but the organization/managerial class thinks their contribution is eliminating small nicenesses, without really coming to understand how much it hurts everyone to eliminate niceities. without understanding that often the price is near zero. orgs have a vastly overinflated sense that they, by preventing people from doing good, are helping the org. it causes immense internal dissonance, is unbelievably time wasting & harmful to have the org stepping in to low level shit- basically free activities- & intervening, and it rarely does good.
- foogazi 4y ago
  > ah yes, the beautiful zero-sum view of the world, where no one does anything positive ever unless the blood price is paid I didn’t say that. We put rules on corporations to protect shareholders. Nothing prevents shareholders from taking profits and giving them away. But we don’t want the execs deciding to give away the shareholders moneys for them. This is also where taxes come in. While others are maximizing profits we take a cut and distribute it to hopefully add some more good to the world > i dont think a mutual benefit ought be required to do a little good My personal cynical belief is that there is always a mutual benefit, it could be of different kind but everyone gets something in return. We value goods/actions differently and don’t place $ on every action, but every action has a cost.

rektide 4y ago

ah yes, the beautiful zero-sum view of the world, where no one does anything positive ever unless the blood price is paid. thank you for your shitty shit view. looking at it the other way, a repair shop could just, like, add some washer fluid for free. or clean some wipers to help the life. good repair shops do, because they understand some small benevolent acts cost next to nothing. not everything needs to be a brutal & cold calculated exchange, priced at every point. good is allowed. sometimes it costs intensely little. i've heard this condescending bullshit used to browbeat & bully countless ideas that would make everyones lives vastly easier within an org. i dont think a mutual benefit ought be required to do a little good; sometimes the price of doing good is just tiny. but the organization/managerial class thinks their contribution is eliminating small nicenesses, without really coming to understand how much it hurts everyone to eliminate niceities. without understanding that often the price is near zero. orgs have a vastly overinflated sense that they, by preventing people from doing good, are helping the org. it causes immense internal dissonance, is unbelievably time wasting & harmful to have the org stepping in to low level shit- basically free activities- & intervening, and it rarely does good.

foogazi 4y ago
> ah yes, the beautiful zero-sum view of the world, where no one does anything positive ever unless the blood price is paid I didn’t say that. We put rules on corporations to protect shareholders. Nothing prevents shareholders from taking profits and giving them away. But we don’t want the execs deciding to give away the shareholders moneys for them. This is also where taxes come in. While others are maximizing profits we take a cut and distribute it to hopefully add some more good to the world > i dont think a mutual benefit ought be required to do a little good My personal cynical belief is that there is always a mutual benefit, it could be of different kind but everyone gets something in return. We value goods/actions differently and don’t place $ on every action, but every action has a cost.