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Comment author: [deleted] 29 September 2013 12:56:11PM *  1 point [-]

How often are you in situations where you have two choices: option A gives you 1000000 units of happiness, and option B gives everyone on this planet 1 unit of happiness?

You refrain from buying something, keeping its market price ever-so-slightly lower than if you bought it, and allowing a bunch of people on the margin to afford it who otherwise couldn't?

(I am not an economist, so there might be something wrong with this.)

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