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The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Free Will Problem and More Responsibility

There is a there's a certain attitude about from on the on behalf of wealthy people that their money. It's almost like this ancient, you know, puritanical thing where like ascetic and and you know, live a life of asceticism. And then they came to America and they started making a ton of money and they were like, maybe the fact that we're rich means that God's smiling on us and it's actually good to be rich. We should like build bigger houses and stuff Like people just find a way to sort of justify wealth and have it mean something in terms of how morally pure they are. I didn't mean to look individual billionaires people like you're

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