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Lots of false equivalence here.

> What cash back do you get on your credit card? 2.625%? High yield savings account? Money market fund? 4.6%?

None of these actions by me directly result in the loss of livelihood or uprooting of lives of other people.

If you told me that by moving my money to a high yield savings account, it would result in my friends or family members losing their jobs, you bet your ass I wouldn't do it, "personal profit" be damned, and that isn't a hard decision to make in the slightest.

Twitch's leader are making a conscious decision: profits over people.




> None of these actions by me directly result in the loss of livelihood or uprooting of lives of other people.

By getting that shiny Chase sign up bonus, your are directly contributing to the firing of front line customer service workers.

You think higher returns are pulled magically from thin air? Like capital gains on VTI/VOO/SPY?


> By getting that shiny Chase sign up bonus, your are directly contributing to the firing of front line customer service workers.

That's not what "directly" means.




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