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by kevinskii 4602 days ago
If you are creating products that people are willing to pay money for, then most likely you are being a huge help to society.
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This is so true. The problem with charities is that so much money needs to be raised to pay for the people that manage the people that raise money. Then the people that spend the money raised expect to be treated like heroes. Plus charities don't pay tax so it is all a bit silly.

Compare with getting into ecommerce and working with some small businesses that don't yet sell online. For example, suppose you team up with a business in the Himalayas that sells genuine Tibetan Monkey Stones to passing tourists that just so happen to be newly wed. Put their business online so that people all over the world can buy traditional Tibetan Monkey Stones for friends getting married. Get the orders in, make people happy on their special day, help some business get more than passing trade, potentially to grow and take on new employees, everyone is a winner. No inane fundraisers needed.

yeah, you could be making zero day exploits and selling them to blackhats, deadly weapons for use in invading third world countries, financial products to help corporations avoidpayin tax. the possibilities are endless and all for the best in the best of all possible worlds!
EWOP applied to economics.

There's this really popular show called Breaking Bad that revolves around the main characters' heroic efforts to do this.