True,
And money is the best way to organize a society if you want efficiency, services and products designed to meet a customer’s wants, even keep corruption to a minimum.
But money is not just amoral, it has a seductive sinful attraction to it. Money tends to lead people into immorality.
People love to rationalize this immorality and at times even pretend it is virtuous.
Think big pharma and price gouging people.
War being profitable.
Porn being profitable.
Financial products where people are essentially “tricked,” in a legal way.
Years ago tobacco companies.
Casinos and gambling.
Using child labor abroad to make products sold in wealthy Western nations.
Companies manufacturing abroad in a way that is Un-environmental.
Companies manufacturing in nations where they used forced labor (still exists!).
It’s all about money: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_girls
We all want to make as much as we can. That’s cool. But that desire to increase the profitability often causes people to make decisions that are flat out immoral. Then they come up with their ethical and pseudo-scientific economic arguments for why their “greed” is actually a virtue.
I do not believe in legislating morality. Whose morality then becomes the issue.
But there are certain overarching moral concepts we all can agree on, and sadly even those limits are often not set in our society because those with the money, also influence the legislation and policy making/enforcement.
But there are certain overarching moral concepts we all can agree on, and sadly even those limits are often not set in our society because those with the money, also influence the legislation and policy making/enforcement.
There have been, and are, many societies which do not share some of those basic values. Aztecs had human sacrifices and were cannibals. Islam does not believe in treating non-Muslims as equal to Muslims. Murder, rape, and theft are acceptable in Islam, if practiced against non-Muslims.