Re: What good are we? As poker players, are we socially responsible?
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I think it would be more beneficial if that low-skilled laborer in India or Aruba or wherever providing support for my exchange of money called poker was instead employed to produce something of value (a computer part or even some cheap item sold at Wal-Mart) . I don't think it would make much of a difference to the laborer and something productive/useful would come out of the whole process.
Bate
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Morally, I have a much easier time making my income playing poker than if I were contributing to the ruin of our planet by creating "useful" cheap items sold at Walmart, or for example engineering & making myself a fortune with some new technological piece of crap that makes people even more lazy, stupid, and technologically reliant. I really have a huge problem with this. It really seems to me that the fundamental of business is to exploit SOMETHING (oil, our environment, unskilled card players, whatever) for your own selfish profitability. But anyways my point is what you consider "socially responsible", I consider ignorant and destructive. I am waiting for the day when we run out of oil to burn and CNN calls it a "major disaster".
I rationize poker as a dream job to me in that I am not contributing in a significant way to our terribly destructive consumer society. And yeah I realize that online poker = technology, but to my credit there isn't a casino cardroom within 5 hours of my home =)
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