"Business" "Intelligence" as Admired Criminality

"It's just business," or is it? "Business" is a remarkably vague term, technically only referring to the quality of being "busy" (busy + ness). Being busy entails nothing about the consequences of one's activities, yet business is broadly considered a positive thing. Anything from farming and education to corporate dealing and geopolitics is called “business”. That is clearly one of the ways "business" has maintained such positive connotations despite its questionable achievements: terminological rationalization. Conduct Rationalization almost all human activity “business” exploiting ignorance “identifying market opportunities” manipulating decisions “influencing consumer behavior” extracting maximum payment “optimizing revenue” taking advantage of desperation “capitalizing on demand” shifting harm onto others “externalizing costs” concealing unfavorable information “strategic information management” circumventing rules “regulatory arbitrage” making departure deliberately difficult “customer retention strategy”