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I admit that I should've guessed, but I'd have appreciated it if you had led with "I'm a Marxist so I think any form of entrepreneurship is evil". Our definitions of "evil" are so far apart that we'll never come to an agreement, and you well know that yours is (totally fine but) not the mainstream definition on this site. You're not going to convince anyone by using words completely differently than the rest.

If you had said things like "inherently exploitative" or something like that, then we might've gotten a lot closer. I think I might actually concur with that (but then argue that it's possible for businesses to also do good, eg provide a service that people need and a compelling job and bread on the table etc, that may offset the badness of the "inherently exploitative" part, so that below the line it's a net positive for society). We'd then have an IMO much more interesting argument about how bad it is for companies to, by definition, be at least slightly exploitative, and whether it's possible to offset that or not. By just calling me "evil" instead (for running a business), you removed all nuance.




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