Lumifer comments on Things I Wish They'd Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 January 2014 03:43:46PM 1 point [-]

it's certainly possible to make money doing things which have negative net value.

Negative net value aggregated over a sufficiently large number of people, e.g. the whole humanity? Sure, it's easy and very widespread. Basically you're talking about anything with a large enough negative externality. A favorite theme of environmentalists, by the way.