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Consumer surplus is not the only human good and infact discounts good done for humans who do not have money.

This not liking vanity thing is interesting but if you tie it to economics then anything that helps people that doesn't make money --things like free software and participating in charities-- could be considered 'vanity' too despite the good they can do.

I got similarly worked up over 'virtue signaling' and people only doing good things for personal prestige when I was an angsty teen but later realised it was better to believe that some people want to do good things sometimes because reasons.

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To be clear, I’m fine with people doing whatever they want; I just don’t want to encourage it when it’s selfish behavior. I am not telling you what to do, and if you’d like to pay Wikipedia editors, I won’t stop you.