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> greed is normal and expected in a free market economy

OK, technically true, just like saying "water flows downhill" when someone's house is flooding. It isn't productive, the fact is well known.

"The system incentivizes this" and "this is good/bad" are two entirely different statements. One doesn't address the other [1], until you make a moral judgement about the outcome.

> You say this as if it's some deviant behaviour that needs correcting.

Is it moral and correct for infants to be fed contaminated baby formula? The mismatch between what is and what ought to be is deviance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem



> It isn't productive, the fact is well known.

I agree. My point is that the original comment was similarly unproductive.




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