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_9vpl on June 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It

> solely to make money is not optimal for the public good.

Is there any example where the sole pursuit of money is ever optimal for the public good? Or even that individual?

sverige on June 19, 2016 [–]

Not much of the internet as we know it would exist if it weren't for the motivation of money. And not all of the internet is bad.

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