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Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was gonna include a third option about how money is easier to achieve without considering the morality of your actions but that's not really a philosophy as much as it is an objective fact.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most things emerge from complex systems.

"A causes B" or "B causes A" sounds tidy, but obscures the reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Even in a complex system, though, if something doesn't happen continuously it's bound to have characteristic conditions that precede it. Describing it as cause and effect is a function of language, then.