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I will bite, what's so bad about business-minded people running a business?

• rhizome 13y ago
  You're casting about in a generalization, but one problem is that there's no such thing as business ethics, and capital is amoral. In case you're going to further ask in-kind whether this means I'm saying the concept of business and/or money itself should be banished, the answer is no.
• lukifer 13y ago
  Who would you rather buy shoes from: someone who obsesses over making great shoes, or someone who obsesses over making money by any means possible, and has decided that shoes are the optimal means to that end? At best, pure business type are a necessary evil, doing the dirty work that enables people to make a living by offering genuine value. But at worst, they are soulless parasites leeching out every ounce of passion and creativity for a cold, hard buck. "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it." http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...
• loceng 13y ago
  Yoga at its epitome is a lifestyle, a way of life - a philosophy of how to live. Business politics and yoga a lot of the time don't mix - that's the simple answer. Lots of business-minded people run businesses ... I'd imagine most do or are in charge of them. There can be issues though when heart or compassion isn't included in it. Example: Do you make money by hurting people or allowing people to get hurt? Is that a good business to be in or a bad one? What kind of people do you think would make money in that type of business? People with heart and empathy or more on the business-minded-lacking-empathy side?