You’re right that I’d respond to different cases differently. Doing high frequency trading in a way that causes some harm—if you think you can do something very good with the money—seems basically sympathetic to me, in a sufficiently unjust society such as ours.
Any info good (including finance and trading) is on some level pretending to involve stewardship over our communal epistemics, but the simulacrum level of something like finance is pretty high in many respects.
You’re right that I’d respond to different cases differently. Doing high frequency trading in a way that causes some harm—if you think you can do something very good with the money—seems basically sympathetic to me, in a sufficiently unjust society such as ours.
Any info good (including finance and trading) is on some level pretending to involve stewardship over our communal epistemics, but the simulacrum level of something like finance is pretty high in many respects.