Comment by tenacious_tuna

Comment by tenacious_tuna 2 days ago

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I was talking to a friend of mine about a related topic when he quipped that he realized he started disliking therapy when he realized they effectively were just teaching him coping strategies for an economic system that is inherently amoral.

> So practically speaking, the options are follow the market or find a different line of work if you don’t like the way the market is going.

You're correct in this, but I think it's worth making the explicit statement that that's also true because we live in a system of amoral resource allocation.

Yes, this is a forum centered on startups, so there's a certain economic bias at play, but on the subject of morality I think there's a fair case to be made that it's reasonable to want to oppose an inherently unjust system and to be frustrated that doing so makes survival difficult.

We shouldn't have to choose between principles and food on the table.

jfil 16 hours ago

> We shouldn't have to choose between principles and food on the table.

I am increasingly convinced that these are the only true kind of ethical decision. Painless/straightforward ethical decisions that you make every day - they probably don't even register on your radar. But a tough tradeoff does.