I am toying with putting up a new question along the lines of “what is the most anti-altruistic way to make a profit”,
There are so many examples of this in real life it would be hard tocome up with a new one. Open a casino, sell cigarettes or hard drugs, pump and dump penny stock operations, three card monty on a street corner, pickpocketing, high frequency stock trading, alternative medicine, making markets in synthetic mortgage backed securities, trafficking in human slaves, ponzi schemes, identity theft, selling things to people with alzheimers, and on and on and on.
I guess the hard part might be identifying which of these was the MOST antialtruistic.
There are so many examples of this in real life it would be hard tocome up with a new one. Open a casino, sell cigarettes or hard drugs, pump and dump penny stock operations, three card monty on a street corner, pickpocketing, high frequency stock trading, alternative medicine, making markets in synthetic mortgage backed securities, trafficking in human slaves, ponzi schemes, identity theft, selling things to people with alzheimers, and on and on and on.
I guess the hard part might be identifying which of these was the MOST antialtruistic.