• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The problem is people gaming the system and stepping on peoples faces to keep all the capital for themselves.

    Yeah but they’re also sociopaths that have bought into “effective altruism” and thus believe their becoming more rich and more powerful not only feels great for them, but it’s also a net good overall in a moral sense.

    The problem overall IMO is sociopaths. They game every system. The only fix is legal and structural changes to eliminate — or at very least greatly lessen — their ability to do so.

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      15 days ago

      Effective altruism doesn’t deserve to be slandered like this. It’s what the better billionaires were into, and few and far between. Some may have given it a bad name through some weird personal guilt trip, but it was generally the good thing on the label.

      I generally agree that we need heavy socialist controls on capitalism. I’m a capitalist, yeah, but “pure” capitalism isn’t a thing and is clearly dumb. If you don’t have controls, billionaires will use money to corrupt/change the rules. THIS is the biggest thing you have to prevent. We can argue about how to do so, but there shouldn’t be argument that it needs to be done.

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        15 days ago

        Effective altruism doesn’t deserve to be slandered like this.

        Dude, effective altruism sucks. A movement is what it does, and what this movement does is spawn cults and give sociopaths cover for getting rich via any means possible.