making money online
Some of my friends are against making money online, others for it. Some of them are even successfully engaged in it. Now they want to have my point of view on this subject.
I answered them, that first of all, I do NOT have to have a point of view on every single subject in the universe, like politicians and other opinion-mongers.
Money is for Epicureans, like for most people just a means, a resource and therefore, from an ethical point of view the most important aspects about it are: where you get it from and what you do with it.
From this standpoint “ethical” money should comes from activities which are congruent, i.e. in line with your system of values. A friend of mine is developing software that is needed by users and other developers and wants to market it and the marketing activity involves some revenues for him, because e.g. some people make some money every time somebody clicks on a link like
http://revenueblueprint.com/?e=bdpocom
because this product benefits their businesses. I ask myself – and the other group of my friends: what is wrong about this? The transfer of money takes place within the framework of the satisfaction of needs. These needs might not belong to the category of Max-Neef’s “fundamental needs” or Epicurus’s “natural” needs but their satisfaction implies no harm done to anybody.
From an ethical point of view it is just as important to reflect where does the money go: What do you do with the surpluses that remain after having satisfied your “fundamental” or “natural” needs? Do you reinvest it into your business? Do you spend it on self-indulgent luxuries? Or do you channel them into supporting the neediest people on your continent?
Your stress-FREEDOM is best served if both the earning and the spending are congruent with your ethical standards.
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