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Maybe... but I read it more as (and tend to agree with) blow it off because it's explicitly an approach that makes the world a worse place in almost every way except perhaps your bank account balance. It's possible to be successful without being mercilessly amoral and there's a big difference between not personally caring for a product vs thinking a product is toxic and holding your nose anyway for the sake of a paycheck.


You seem to be arguing there's no use in learning about immoral businesses.


I mean should we be learning about how to run a private equity firm that buys up all the heart clinics in a metropolitan area then jacks up prices? It's not really that interesting unless you're writing anti-trust legislation.

I'm not saying Mr.Beast is even that bad but spare us the patronizing attitude at least.


A person could read this document without once thinking "this is how I'm going to do things". In fact, the first I heard of it was from people describing portions specifically to decry manipulative and toxic behaviors.

In your particular example, lawmakers don't wake up one day and decide to write anti-trust legislation. They do it in response to sustained pressure from constituents who must first understand what's going wrong and propose (hopefully somewhat effective) ways to fix it. So understanding what's going on in your own community and how a business specifically is taking advantage is a good thing to do if you have the time and inclination.


If you really think that, then you should be all the more interested in what it means to execute on that allegedly-harmful effort well vs poorly


While there's merit to the "know your enemy" approach, I wouldn't expect everyone to take it.


exactly




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