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Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people?

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I was gonna include a third option about how money is easier to achieve without considering the morality of your actions but that’s not really a philosophy as much as it is an objective fact.

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Floon@lemmy.ml
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I would say “meaningful”. Billionaires can have a very noticeable effect with their philanthropy, while making essentially no sacrifice on their part. The Gates Foundation does very noticeable good, but Bill Gates isn’t giving of himself very much.

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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Yup.

OPs point stands, though, because we could still do that without Gates, and for every Gates there’s a Musk that does evil and a ton of Arnaults and Bezos’s that just spend it on whatever.

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SurpriZe@lemm.ee
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So what exactly would you propose he should do?

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Floon@lemmy.ml
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You invite my “billionaires shouldn’t exist” TED talk.

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SurpriZe@lemm.ee
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So what exactly would you propose he would do?

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fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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Their harm is hidden and any benefits sung from the roof tops.

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