My point wasn’t about risk vs reward, or in their words “harm” vs reward. It’s about how increasing the opportunity for reward increases the justifiable harm. “X is bad (unless it makes me rich).”

I guess it’s the fact that Anthropic usually frame this around morality and risk to society that makes it different. Instead of “risk/harm to me vs reward to me,” their framing reads as “risk/harm to us vs reward to me” or “immorality vs reward to me.” That’s what makes it feel like a great metaphor.

The standard cost benefit analysis we all do justifies increasing the harm to others if the opportunity to benefit ourselves goes up.