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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7776958" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Yep. Now, you see, here's where we wind up with conflicts.</p><p></p><p>In the past year, I spent about 75% of my gaming dollars not locally, but not on Amazon. Much of my gaming money has gone to Kickstarter projects, and some more is spent ordering directly from the publisher's website. I am pretty sure there's a strong argument that I am helping myself while helping others by making it easier for content creators to create and make something more like a living wage, specifically by <em>cutting out middlemen</em> and helping cover the development financing of works. </p><p></p><p>We can't have it both ways - if nothing else, I can't spend 75% of my gaming money on Kickstarter and 75% in a FLGS. That math fails. I am helping others by supporting the FLGS, but I am also helping others by cutting out those same retail middlemen? How, pray tell, does that work? </p><p></p><p>Do you watch "The Good Place"? If not, you, of all people, should, because I think you'd love it! But anyway, Season 3, Episode 11, "The Book Of Dougs" is relevant. It notes that the world is so complex at this point that a typical person on the ground actually can't suss out the consequences of their actions - there are too many variables and too much distance between cause and effect. Then attaching moral or ethical value on the actor for results they really can't predict or control, is not really fair.</p><p></p><p>For example - we are talking about how we should boycott Chinese manufacturing, because the Chinese are horrible to their workers, right?</p><p></p><p>So, what money are the Chinese workers using to pay for food, if we withdraw the money from their manufacturing? Hm? Does the kid of a Chinese worker have to go hungry, because I, who don't live in his country, decide his government treats him poorly? How does that work out, ethically?</p><p></p><p>That's a rhetorical question, not really to be answered here. But it demonstrates how *none* of these issues are clear-cut or simple, and how armchair economists and ethicists on a message board dedicated to how we pretend to be elves are probably not the best to answer them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7776958, member: 177"] Yep. Now, you see, here's where we wind up with conflicts. In the past year, I spent about 75% of my gaming dollars not locally, but not on Amazon. Much of my gaming money has gone to Kickstarter projects, and some more is spent ordering directly from the publisher's website. I am pretty sure there's a strong argument that I am helping myself while helping others by making it easier for content creators to create and make something more like a living wage, specifically by [I]cutting out middlemen[/I] and helping cover the development financing of works. We can't have it both ways - if nothing else, I can't spend 75% of my gaming money on Kickstarter and 75% in a FLGS. That math fails. I am helping others by supporting the FLGS, but I am also helping others by cutting out those same retail middlemen? How, pray tell, does that work? Do you watch "The Good Place"? If not, you, of all people, should, because I think you'd love it! But anyway, Season 3, Episode 11, "The Book Of Dougs" is relevant. It notes that the world is so complex at this point that a typical person on the ground actually can't suss out the consequences of their actions - there are too many variables and too much distance between cause and effect. Then attaching moral or ethical value on the actor for results they really can't predict or control, is not really fair. For example - we are talking about how we should boycott Chinese manufacturing, because the Chinese are horrible to their workers, right? So, what money are the Chinese workers using to pay for food, if we withdraw the money from their manufacturing? Hm? Does the kid of a Chinese worker have to go hungry, because I, who don't live in his country, decide his government treats him poorly? How does that work out, ethically? That's a rhetorical question, not really to be answered here. But it demonstrates how *none* of these issues are clear-cut or simple, and how armchair economists and ethicists on a message board dedicated to how we pretend to be elves are probably not the best to answer them. [/QUOTE]
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