I’d spawn a few million euros for myself and never worry about finances ever again. Ruining the world economy with hyperinflation isn’t in my interest, nor would I have any use for more money than that.
More than the average? Well many things. Home improvement, plumbing, photography, finances, philosophy, mountain biking, evolutionary psychology, woodworking, flashlights ..
Even if morality isn’t objective, we still need shared rules to make society livable. “Don’t take what isn’t yours” is one of those rules - not because it’s some cosmic truth, but because ignoring it makes cooperation impossible. There can be rare exceptions where breaking it is justified, but that still doesn’t make it right.
And just to be clear - you haven’t actually given me a reason to rethink that. You’ve just said I’m wrong, without explaining why your view should replace mine. If your goal is to challenge my reasoning, then engage with the reasoning. Otherwise I don't see what the point of all this is.
I’m not sure how much this applies to inherited wealth, but from an evolutionary psychology perspective, women on average tend to date men who are on their financial level or above - whereas for men, it’s basically the opposite, or it just doesn’t matter. It’s kind of a sad situation, really. If you’re a well-off career woman in your 30s you’re competing for the same men as a 23-year-old Starbucks barista.
The ones that don’t use consumables are typically consumables themselves.
Yeah, my parents bought this cordless Dyson vacuum and that thing is the cheapest feeling piece of plastic junk I've ever seen. I don't even dare to check how much those things cost.
I make a new account every thousand comments or so specifically because I don’t want internet fame. But if I didn’t, I’d probably be recognized as that guy who says what he thinks even when he knows it won’t be popular. Then again, I filter content so aggressively to avoid threads where I’d be tempted to share those unpopular opinions that maybe I wouldn’t get recognized that much after all.
A small plumbing and HVAC company I was working for got bought out by a larger firm that mainly focused on electrical work. When business in the plumbing department slowed down, they decided to shut it down and lay off all of us plumbers.
That turned out to be one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. Now I’m self-employed, running my own handyman business - exactly what I’d be doing if I could choose freely. The pay isn’t as good, but I work fewer hours, don’t have anyone to answer to but myself, and I actually get genuine gratitude for the work I do.
It would justify not going out of your way to return money to them.
I disagree. A moral universalist view would hold that taking what isn’t yours is wrong, full stop. You can argue there are degrees to it - that stealing from a cancer patient causes more harm than stealing from a megacorporation - but something being less bad than the alternative still doesn’t make it good or right. From a purely moral standpoint, the right thing to do is to let them know they overpaid. Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself.
You’re shifting the question from "what’s the right thing to do?" to "does this company deserve honesty?" - which isn’t a counterargument, it’s a dodge. The idea that the company probably committed wage theft is pure speculation, and even if true, it wouldn’t justify dishonesty in return. That’s moral relativism, not ethics. The question here is simple: do you knowingly keep money that isn’t yours? Everything else is just rationalizing what one already wants to do.
My net income is about 30k€ a year. I took quite a pay cut going self-employed few years back so I'm barely making ends meet right now but I'm also working less and I'm much more satisfied with what I do. It's likely that my job prospects will only improve from here so I'll probably be doing better in few years.
I don't really consider myself wealthy nor poor. My income isn't that high but I have decent amount of savings and investments so I don't really need to stress about finances. I do, but I don't need to.
From a purely moral standpoint it seems rather obvious that the right thing to do is to contact them and let them know about the mistake. I'm quite literally unable to come up with an opposing argument.
I don't live in the US. That is not my culture. You said that I live in a "my culture is better than yours" bubble. Please explain how my culture where we don't cut the genitals of children is not objectively better than the alternatives. I don't understand this insane purity test of yours.
In my culture we don't cut the genitals of neither boys or girls when they're born. You care to explain how this isn't objectively better than the alternatives?
I don’t think you’re doing anyone a service by equating male circumcision with female genital mutilation. I think my response was nuanced enough, and I don’t have anything more to add.
I’d spawn a few million euros for myself and never worry about finances ever again. Ruining the world economy with hyperinflation isn’t in my interest, nor would I have any use for more money than that.