Emile comments on Is ruthlessness in business executives ever useful? - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: Desrtopa 28 December 2012 07:46PM

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Comment author: Emile 28 December 2012 10:31:16PM 3 points [-]

We have a tradition of treating ruthlessness in businesspeople as something of a virtue.

Who does? Americans in general? Libertarians? Lesswrongers? The general impression I get is that it's rarely considered better than a necessary evil, but I could be wrong. To my ears your post sounds a bit like "Many people think that it's good to eat babies. However, I don't think so, and here is why ...."

Comment author: Desrtopa 28 December 2012 10:38:20PM 0 points [-]

You may be right. I had this comment particularly in mind when I wrote the post, but even if it resonates with what I've heard a lot of people say in the past, that's not equivalent to a polling result.