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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.Can there be such a thing as too much fun?
Can there be such a thing as too much profit?
In both cases, I think ‘no’. And I wonder if the fear of ‘too much’ fun and ‘too much’ profit is fundamentally the same thing.
Like, when parents worry that their kids are having too much fun, and when socialists are suspicious of companies turning a profit… is that an expression of the same fear?
Maybe the role of profit in the economy is the same as that of fun in a single mind: it signals successful discovery of common preferences.
Unintended consequences also apply to minds and economies.
You can’t just outlaw certain kinds of trade and expect nothing bad to happen. You certainly can’t expect people to get wealthier.
Likewise, you can’t just force yourself or others to do something and expect nothing bad to happen.