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Hello,
There seems to be an attitude that money chasing is evil and immoral, while a desire to create value for the sake of helping people. My philosophical questions are the following.
A. Does whether one has a money chasing mentality versus a desire to change the world alone determine one;s moral worth alone.
I will give two examples:
A. Person A is a famous but deceased technology tycoon who is literally a household name. He claims to have and may have started in business soley to bring new and better technology to the world He is a great big picture thinker who has brought wonderful technology to the world. He has truly cared in a big picture sense about bringing new technology to the world. However, as anyone who knows his story, can tell he has treated everyone around him like crap.
A. He blocked his best fried who worked with him in the garage from getting stock options.
B. For along time he denied his ex girlfriend and their kid child support.
C. He berates hard working employees just as part of a psychogical game.
D. He once yelled at a whole foods employee who happened to be eldery just for making a smoothie the wrong way.
In my opinion, even if he started his big world famous technology company just because he wanted to bring new technology to the world (which he did) , the fact that he treated his friends and family, and employees like crap makes him a morally worthless bastard.
B. Person B is a littler known Chicago Commodity trader. He admited that he got into commodity trading just to get rich. However, he has done some unusually caring deeds:
A. He has mentored some random people such a exchange security guard and as part of an experiment people from all walks of like to be millionaire traders.
B. He has helped many employees get started in the business.
C. He has always been good to his family.
D. He has cared for his community.
Question two: Does whether have an orientation towards getting rich versus helping people ALWAYS affect the outcome. In other words, do intentions always trump actions.
Here is what I mean:
Let us say person A decides to become a specialist doctor just to make money. Person B decdides to become a doctor just to help people. What if person A despite going into surgery just to get rich realizes the importance of long term value and practices his craft and is actually a great surgeon. Person B goes into surgery just based on good intentions but does not realize what a lousy surgeon he is. Who will succeed in the long run?
To summarize, here are my questions:
1. Is it possible for a person to have an orientation towards helping people as their business motive, but still have some serious moral flaws and is it possible for a person to have a money chaser orientation toward business, but happen to have some saintly qualities to compensate in other aspects of their life?
2. Will it work like 100 percent clockwork that a person who focuses on creating value will get rich while a money chaser will never every get wealthy or do exceptions exist?
Thanks
There seems to be an attitude that money chasing is evil and immoral, while a desire to create value for the sake of helping people. My philosophical questions are the following.
A. Does whether one has a money chasing mentality versus a desire to change the world alone determine one;s moral worth alone.
I will give two examples:
A. Person A is a famous but deceased technology tycoon who is literally a household name. He claims to have and may have started in business soley to bring new and better technology to the world He is a great big picture thinker who has brought wonderful technology to the world. He has truly cared in a big picture sense about bringing new technology to the world. However, as anyone who knows his story, can tell he has treated everyone around him like crap.
A. He blocked his best fried who worked with him in the garage from getting stock options.
B. For along time he denied his ex girlfriend and their kid child support.
C. He berates hard working employees just as part of a psychogical game.
D. He once yelled at a whole foods employee who happened to be eldery just for making a smoothie the wrong way.
In my opinion, even if he started his big world famous technology company just because he wanted to bring new technology to the world (which he did) , the fact that he treated his friends and family, and employees like crap makes him a morally worthless bastard.
B. Person B is a littler known Chicago Commodity trader. He admited that he got into commodity trading just to get rich. However, he has done some unusually caring deeds:
A. He has mentored some random people such a exchange security guard and as part of an experiment people from all walks of like to be millionaire traders.
B. He has helped many employees get started in the business.
C. He has always been good to his family.
D. He has cared for his community.
Question two: Does whether have an orientation towards getting rich versus helping people ALWAYS affect the outcome. In other words, do intentions always trump actions.
Here is what I mean:
Let us say person A decides to become a specialist doctor just to make money. Person B decdides to become a doctor just to help people. What if person A despite going into surgery just to get rich realizes the importance of long term value and practices his craft and is actually a great surgeon. Person B goes into surgery just based on good intentions but does not realize what a lousy surgeon he is. Who will succeed in the long run?
To summarize, here are my questions:
1. Is it possible for a person to have an orientation towards helping people as their business motive, but still have some serious moral flaws and is it possible for a person to have a money chaser orientation toward business, but happen to have some saintly qualities to compensate in other aspects of their life?
2. Will it work like 100 percent clockwork that a person who focuses on creating value will get rich while a money chaser will never every get wealthy or do exceptions exist?
Thanks
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