MTI097: The Morality of SRI and Google Cars, with Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky

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🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky explains how we can still make moral-based investment decisions even when faced with a difficult question like this: Would you invest in a company that sells self-driving cars if it chose to kill the driver instead of

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. I'm Linda P. Jones from the Be Wealthy and Smart podcast. And today on our show, we're going to have Rabbi Shaya Karlinski, who's talking about socially responsible investing. We're going to talk about if all people choose their own moral guidelines for what is socially responsible investing. what kind of benchmark can we really have?
0:22.0	This is a provocative discussion, really interesting. I hope you enjoy it. Here we go.
0:27.3	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks,
0:34.7	invest in your life. I am very excited to have on the show here today.
0:39.2	Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky from Jerusalem.
0:42.0	He is the head of the David Chappelle College of Jewish Studies and Medreshet
0:45.8	Rahel College of Jewish Studies, where men and women study Jewish text, philosophy, and
0:51.5	law.
0:52.3	He's also known as an expert in business ethics. In fact, people come from
0:56.3	around the world to Jerusalem to talk with Rabbi Kirlinski about issues in business and ethics.
1:01.8	And in fact, the topic that I want to talk about today is a very, very hot topic in the news,
1:07.1	which is about self-driving cars and the ethical issues. But we're going to hold that
1:12.1	off to the end because I want to invite the rabbi on and ask you, Rabbi, why is it that today,
1:17.7	when people are so focused on socially responsible investing, why is it that they would actually
1:22.8	be looking towards ancient texts to try and understand the technology today and make smart investment
1:29.0	decisions.
1:29.9	When we talk about socially responsible investing, it becomes a very subjective thing.
1:36.5	And without some objective standards, without some frames of reference that go beyond the
1:42.3	feelings of a person, it's really hard to correctly make your decisions
1:48.5	if socially responsible investing is a value. Judaism does believe that it is a value, but we
1:55.5	need to define what are ethical goals and what do we consider moral as opposed to just legal?
2:02.8	Well, let me give you a little background of what I've seen. I've been working on Wall Street
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