Ethics and Values / Unit 7 Ethics 302 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Miser's Mistake
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The idea
The miser's mistake treats a means as an end: money, credentials, and metrics are instrumental goods, and hoarding them past their use buys nothing.
In practice
An executive defers every friendship to raise a number that exists to fund a life. The number grew; the life did not.
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