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Old 04-04-2014, 05:10 PM
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Rational self-interest that enables and perpetuates a modern standard of living for the largest number of people possible under the capitalist model.

If Costco decided to just up and waste the food that'd be one thing, and yes, it'd be stupid. However, after looking it up, it appears that Costco's refusal to distribute / sell comes from a salmonella concern.



When you walk past a starving homeless person do you give them the money in your wallet? When that runs out, do you give them all the money in your checking account? It seems that you're making a purely monetary decision. You make these decisions every day. The moment you withhold something for your self that is not essential to your staying alive, you make a decision similar to what has been done. Yes, if you buy food simply to waste it that is bad. But if you've got an economic justification for your actions, it begins to make sense in the aggregate.

I noticed you've missed some of my earlier posts. As I wrote above, donated clothing often decimates local textile industries. In that case, yes, it can often be better to dump the material. While one or two people might freeze if you dump, hundreds might freeze if the local textiles industry went under.
No. I buy the homeless person a sandwich. And I don't feel.guilty about not emptying my bank account for him. I rarely have more money than I need for food/bills. I'm not enjoying excess while other people starve. And the peanut butter in question was not contaminated. It was produced after the salmonella scare was over from the info I read in an interview with the companies president.
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Old 04-04-2014, 05:18 PM
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I'm not enjoying excess while other people starve. And the peanut butter in question was not contaminated.
I take it you will only maintain enough cash for your own minimum needs for the rest of your life? That you will give away all unneeded excess?
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Old 04-04-2014, 05:28 PM
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I take it you will only maintain enough cash for your own minimum needs for the rest of your life? That you will give away all unneeded excess?
Yeah, pretty much. If I see something I can do for someone, I do it. Define excess. Do I have some things that I could probably reasonably.live without? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we all do. Do I have 5 cars sitting in the garage of my three story summer house? No. I have enough to live a pretty simple life. I have very few things that I want versus what I need. I feel like I'm doing pretty well. I'm certainly not storing up wealth while making excuses about my stock futures while not doing what I can actually do to help people that need it though. That's the sort of mentality I'm talking about.
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Old 04-04-2014, 05:33 PM
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Comparing a regular individual's fiscal habits to those of a multi-billion dollar corporation is without scope.
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