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Are you saying that being business savvy always requires taking advantage of other people?

• roc 17y ago
  No. I'm saying that it requires the awareness of how you could. E.g. Being an intelligent chemist necessarily implies that you could, say, build a bomb. You might never do it. And if you did, you might do it in as-ethical a way as possible. But you still need to know how to blow things up. Similarly with business. You may never leverage that knowledge, but someone else might. And you need to know how to protect yourself from that.
  • ajju 17y ago
    I see. In my experience people who take advantage of other people may gain in the short run but in the long run they always lose. Most people I deal with are not stupid (and I prefer it that way). They can tell when they are being taken advantage of and would not put up with it. Dealing with them fairly, sometimes at my own expense, has worked in my favor in the long run. But it makes sense that you be smart enough to know when you are being taken advantage of.