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Poverty may be virtuous, and while you may yet find that virtue, seek it not for its own sake.

I'm only here to appear more virtuous than my friends, and also to sleep with girls who have weird piercings and tattoos.

A plumber can be, and often is, more morally virtuous than a CEO."Takers" or "moochers" are not "working people".

If you see a problem that is worth fixing and you fix it, then the change effected is important and even virtuous.

And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring.

So what you're saying is, you'd like to talk like you have a virtuous outlook on life, but you don't actually want to own up to the consequences of said virtue.

One of the chief illusions caused by ignoring this is the Platonic-Hebraic-Christian view that virtuous rulers create virtuous men.

If "flexible thinking" means betraying the revolution then there's nothing virtuous about it and I hope we don't see more of it from the "leaders" of free software projects.

Roast the culpable individuals, reward the virtuous individuals.

Macroeconomics can, via some stretching of the perfect-markets hypothesis, be transformed into this almost-Calvinist cosmology, where the virtuous labourers will be blessed with an eventual retirement, and the sinful free-loaders will be punished with the sin of contentment.

One where the original innovators get to capture some of the value they created, fueling even more innovation in a virtuous circle of "innovation -> better product -> more money -> more innovation".To me personally, were we to succeed, that would be a welcome change from the current situation, where the initial inventors are trampled by savvier entrepreneurs, who race to the local maximum of the most profitable derivative business model with the highest barriers to entry, and proceed to not reinvest their profits in the original invention, thwarting the virtuous circle.