<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:28 AM Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019, 22:50 Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:55 AM Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019, 00:51 Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:54 PM Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But it's definitely silly, too, to pretend that Bezos' riches aren't fueled by suffering.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>### If Mr Bezos was eliminated, let's say by another unfortunate flying accident, what would be the resulting change in average human welfare - net negative, positive or neutral?</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Question with a question.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### You answer first. And I want the precise answer - net negative, positive, neutral, or I don't know.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I asked first though. And what do you mean by negative, positive, neutral? For whom? There is no answer. Infinite value judgments abound. But I am sure that Bezos dying would cause much less of an acute increase in the entropy of the human species than the 3.8 billion dying.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### You have a strange pattern of certitudes and agnosticisms. You are absolutely sure Mr Bezos fuels his company by suffering but you can't say if we all would be better or worse off if he stopped doing what he is doing. You even deny the possibility of answering that question in the first place - "There is no anwer", "Infinite value judgments abound". And right after saying you can't possibly judge anything at all, again you are certain you want to divert the discussion to somewhere else.</div><div><br></div><div>I find it tedious. </div></div></div>