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It depends entirely on how you define utility.

Making rich people happier makes me more unhappy that it makes them more happy, so by your calculus it's not worth helping them.

See how quickly this line of reasoning runs aground?




Probably the whole concept of utility breaks down if we were to include schadenfreude like that




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