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   v (valkyrie@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 01:47:22 JST v

   gonna be real... sometimes i really hate how my principles and morality keep me from becoming wealthier faster

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     v (valkyrie@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 01:47:17 JST v

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     ive always considered myself morally grey. maybe i should start acting in the grey more often.

     at the end of the day, if you're encased by capitalism, is there really a moral question of using tools of capitalism to help accelerate its undoing?

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     v (valkyrie@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 01:47:18 JST v

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     idk what's worse. taking opportunities like that that could change lives and my communities despite the absolute dirt it comes from or just let it go and keep struggling and keep not having enough to do more and the things that need doing fast enough to do anything.

     often times it feels irresponsible to not take advantage when and where ANY opportunity presents itself, especially if there's justification that little harm comes from those opportunities aside from moral injury.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     v (valkyrie@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 01:47:20 JST v

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     so the moral dilemma -- sit idly by while others get wealthier off of stupidity and corruption or take part knowing exactly what it is to get those same benefits and then turn around and use it to help your communities and also use it against the very people you got it from

     it's the same with guns. i wish for a world where no one had them or needed them, but i live in the US and i have guns because it's my right and bc everyone else has them. to not do so is irresponsible and naive.

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     v (valkyrie@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 01:47:21 JST v

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     case in point: trump coin cryptocurrency

     knowing it's a pump and dump, knowing it's for/by and largely owned by a terrible human, knowing it's a cryptocurrency, i could've multiplied a sum of money by a factor of 10 and only have had to give up 15% of that profit to taxes. and i could've done it knowing in the end it was taking money away from badly-aligned people, and it'd be using the tools of the enemy to help fight them.

     and yet, my conscience gets in the way.