Individual vs Societal Benefit
The cluster debates the tension between personal profit or self-interest and contributions to societal good, questioning whether individuals should prioritize social responsibility over individual gain even when not economically rewarded.
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What's good for society might not be good for the individual.
"no societal good" != "more societal good than alternatives"
Some people are more committed to a functioning society than market exploitation.
Doesn't help when the issue is benefit to society rather than personal benefit.
Not if you take "some societal good" to mean "some [marginal] societal good"
Yeah, but you'd be shirking your social responsibility to create value ... if everyone was to do the same, how would the parasites survive? /s
It is a universal rule as if you don't do that, you are part of the problem and are creating a drag on the society, reducing the value for everyone to use and enjoy. Your argument sounds like You want to see the society to fail and collapse.
What if being productive to society is actually harmful?
Society doesn't always value economically what it needs existentially.
I‘m no expert in this area, but isn’t it by now an agreed-upon insight that a society of people working towards selfish interests end up unintentionally bettering circumstances for the society at large?