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EXACTLY, thank you! I run an international human trafficking and drug smuggling operation. I know that what I'm doing is good for society:

- It makes me and my partners extremely rich

- It creates jobs for at-risk youth

- It provides products and services that people want

It benefits society! I am a benefit to society! Why can't anyone see this?

That's all good if you assume people can't be tricked (tricked into paying more, tricked into buying something they don't want, tricked into working harder). The tricked person ends up with less and Elon ends up with more.

yeah man i'm sorry i don't believe people were "tricked" into buying teslas or whatever

Yeah sorry I was thinking about value as more about quality of life and society. If you define it as shareholder value and producing stuff, then by definition corporations and their executives are of course contributing the most.

Is making shareholders rich contributing to society and humanity?

yes it is. your pension scheme has stake on the same stocks.

Yikes.