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Originally posted by tokaok
for example most people think that all should have a job that can let them support their fammily, feed and clothe their children. But the realities of their world force them to go shop at WalMart. at that point the one individual is making their values and hope a reality for themselves, but in a way hampering it for others(kid in philipines who made their sons sweater, and mother of 10 in africa who farmed their steak dinner for the night).
this person is not evil, and the same thing happens to CEO of large corporations, they see their kids and want they best for them and so they do by buying them say a brand new car. even tho this cost the lay off of one of their employess 1000 km away whoes children might bare even get break fast.
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Ooh and the socialist "wealth is a zero-sum game" fallacy, too. Damn you people are on a roll in this thread!
So giving jobs to people in the Philipenes hurts them? The alternative would be....? And I'd really like to know how many African woman cow farmers ship beef to America.
FYI, any employee's job is to make a profit for the company. If the employee in your example was doing that, there's no reason why a CEO would fire him in favor of a car. Not that it would ever happen in a large corporation, anyway. Also, notably absent from your scenario is the fact that his purchase helped feed the car manufacturer's employees.