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0 points7sidedmarble3y ago0 comments

Why shouldn't we have ethical opinions about the economy?

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So, things like "functioning markets are good" and "price-fixing is bad"?

Slave markets were functional. Feudalism was functional. The market for drugs and organs are functional.

Lets try tougher ones - are markets captured by cartels functional? Does OPEC inhibit free market or are they free market in action?

When tech companies create anti-poaching agreement to supress wages, is that functional?

User233y ago

And usury is awful.

berniedurfee3y ago

I’d go further to ask why ethics shouldn’t play a more active and significant role in the governing of an economy?

nec4b3y ago

Do you have ethical opinions for example about Newton's laws in physics? Or do you accept them for what they are?

BHSPitMonkey3y ago

Humans design the system in which the market operates. Obviously one cannot make an appeal to change physics.

nec4b3y ago

We design car and planes just as well with physics.

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parthianshotgun3y ago

This is sarcasm I'm assuming?

nec4b3y ago

I thought implying there was some sort of cosmic injustice when a software developers"deserves" more than a nurse, was some sort of sarcasm. We would never understand anything about the world if we talked like that about for example why does this rock deserves a higher potential energy than that acorn.

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tbrownaw3y ago

So, things like "functioning markets are good" and "price-fixing is bad"?

ClumsyPilot3y ago

Slave markets were functional. Feudalism was functional. The market for drugs and organs are functional.

Lets try tougher ones - are markets captured by cartels functional? Does OPEC inhibit free market or are they free market in action?

When tech companies create anti-poaching agreement to supress wages, is that functional?

User233y ago

And usury is awful.

berniedurfee3y ago

I’d go further to ask why ethics shouldn’t play a more active and significant role in the governing of an economy?

nec4b3y ago

Do you have ethical opinions for example about Newton's laws in physics? Or do you accept them for what they are?

BHSPitMonkey3y ago

Humans design the system in which the market operates. Obviously one cannot make an appeal to change physics.

nec4b3y ago

We design car and planes just as well with physics.

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parthianshotgun3y ago

This is sarcasm I'm assuming?

nec4b3y ago

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