Also, it is better if they feel guilty, because they might do something useful with their money to assuage their consciences.
That's a fully generalizable argument more or less lifted from Christianity's playbook X-/
I think I'm OK with that, on balance. Most people have a natural tendency to feel they deserve nicer things, regardless of how nice their things are. Having a societal rule that says the opposite will tend to correct for that.
And hey, it's been effective. Why throw away a tool that works because the people who invented it disagree with us? We can even use it more effectively.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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