Perhaps this is what Musk means when it says that empathy is bad.
If your goal is to maximise your own personal wealth, then empathy really is a hindrance. But I put to you that maximising money is not a goal worth devoting a lifetime to. And perhaps not scamming dumb people is a valuable way to act regardless.
(This is essentially what motivated the Quakers to push for set prices for goods rather than constant bartering. They believed that dump people should still be able to go to a shop and buy stuff without getting ripped off. I’d say that moral position has made the world a slightly better place.)
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am really about to throw my morality away and start grifting the FUCK out of these clowns.
5G defense necklaces, vaccine-removal potions, distilled masculinity in a bottle, magnets you shove up your nose to keep trans kids out of your bank account, whatever, you name it. Since we’re about to lose foreign production it’s time to fire up those 3D printers and Etsy accounts.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
DM me… Let’s start a business… If things gonna be this silly might as well make a silly living
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Hello, we should sell crystals, what shpuld we claim the crystals do? I can make all kind of crystals out of common industrial commodities!
Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Crystals can actually remove bad influences from your life, if you throw them hard enough.