Quote:
Originally Posted by murraypaul
You said "What people do is not necessarily correlated with what is good for people."
If that is to have a meaning within the context of this thread surely it must be that buying from the cheapest source is not necessarily good for me?
|
What may be good for the individual may not be good for society. It could be argued that, although it's beneficial for you personally to be able to buy cheap books from Amazon, if the result of that is that all the small independent bookshops go out of business, society as a whole is the poorer for it.