You are a good person if
7 days ago
- #productivity
- #economics
- #society
- Advocates turning against unproductive groups but warns against purity spirals.
- Key principle: You should produce more than you consume over your lifetime.
- Don’t feel bad for temporary consumption (savings, investments, etc.), but net production matters.
- Criticizes modern economy for shifting from production to exploitation ('putting hands in others’ pockets').
- Unproductive rich and poor collaborate to take from productive individuals.
- Unproductive rich frame helping the poor as moral to mask their own unproductivity.
- Calls for cultural change to value productive jobs (farmers, engineers, manufacturing) over negative-sum roles (private equity, lobbyists).
- All roles, from billionaires to fry cooks, are valued if they produce more than they consume.
- Negative-sum jobs should no longer be socially acceptable.