Sales is a great example of how moralizing about tools rather than uses of them creates incoherent beliefs which lead to dysfunctional policy. Most sales people

Sales is a great example of how moralizing about tools rather than uses of them creates incoherent beliefs which lead to dysfunctional policy. Most sales people I've met generally believe they're not bullshitting people. Now, their profession selects for persuasion and exerting frame control over social reality, and teaches it, but they use this skillset in a more "legitimate" context than the central examples that get the mean names, so the notion that they are using a skill for good purposes quickly morphs into the belief that it's in fact a different toolkit, because this is the only way we can coherently tell them that they are legitimate but continue attacking grifters not just on their actions but on their competencies and methods