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When they aren't accepting payment, not getting paid is no opportunity cost to them. An act which slightly increases my happiness and wealth, without imposing harm or costs on anyone, is its own justification. How would you advocate deprivation which doesn't even benefit anyone?


The authors will be very unhappy. So you just build your own happiness on other people's unhappiness and ignore them, saying, "why should they?"




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