@davidculley@hachyderm.io They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies. Warren Buffet made a similar claim: he didn't give to charities because he could use the money from the donations to instead make significantly more money, which would mean that he'd later be able to give more money to charities and have a bigger impact. Which sounds completely plausible if you ignore two important things: The time value of money. An intervention now may have a cascading impact and do much more good long term than a bigger intervention later. The people you might help today might die without the intervention.The fact that wealth inequality is the cause of a lot of the things charities exist to help and making wealth inequality worse to be able to do good later is not really a winning strategy.