mccMar 10

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116127090589590254

I've been thinking about this thread (link goes to final post) and its idea of a "Capital Strike" a lot for the last couple weeks. I'm still not sure if it works in the details (things I struggle with: is any of this intentional? is Jennifer attempting to suggest it is intentional? is "intentionality" a concept which can be ascribed to billionaires?) but in general strokes I think it's touched on something important

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@mcc never attribute to malice what rampant greed readily explains. They’re all chasing the pipe dream of epic world change returns. From what I’m seeing ‘Capital’ is finally starting to refuse feeding that fire.
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@BabblingGeek Should we treat "malice" and "rampant greed" as two different things? If so, why?
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@mcc @BabblingGeek rampant greed is like a scaled version of prioritizing your own interests. It is to a degree relatable, I mean "I" am prioritizing my own interests a lot of the time. Malice is more like sabotaging others, without necessarily gaining something out of it. I would very much prefer to work or deal with a rampantly greedy person than a malicious one. Some people are both...
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@mcc practically? Probably not. That's why greed is explicitly named as wicked in at least some faith traditions.*
But philosophically I reckon those are different domains. Unless you state categorically that greed is evil, one can consider it orthogonal to ethics, and therefore not malicious (which is an ethical term afai understand).

* Ex. https://www.sefaria.org/English_Explanation_of_Pirkei_Avot.5.10

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English Explanation of Pirkei Avot 5:10 | Sefaria Library

There are four types of character in human beings:One that says: “mine is mine, and yours is yours”: this is a commonplace type; and some say this is a...

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@mcc Yes, they have different reactions to feedback. By this argument malice and incompetence are distinguishable at low degree but converge in extremis.