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The four-way test doesn't seem archaic at all. Why do you say that?

• x3n0ph3n3 11y ago
  > Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? I'd like to promote activities that are detrimental to some institutions and beneficial to others because I believe there are institutions that should be dismantled.
  • c54 11y ago
    definitely nitpicking, but if those institutions should actually be dismantled, it might be beneficial to those wrapped up in the institution in the long run (while detrimental to the institution itself)
• TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Because your average business today doesn't seem to give a shit about truth (see: almost everyone's marketing), fairness (especially to employees), goodwill (externality? what's an externality?) and benefiting all concerned (a third of the companies out there would probably not exist if their founders gave a rat's ass about their effect on society). Call me cynical, but I get the feeling that morality and honor got sacrificed for competitiveness. Internet businesses are a special case here, they can afford to be fair to the employees and to care in a way, and yet there are still lots of them that are harmful to the society.
  • chadk 11y ago
    > … your average business today doesn't seem to give a shit about truth…, fairness…, goodwill … and benefiting all concerned (a third of the companies out there would probably not exist if their founders gave a rat's ass about their effect on society). Call me cynical, but I get the feeling that morality and honor got sacrificed for competitiveness. Internet businesses are a special case… I thought you were talking about internet businesses!
    • TeMPOraL 11y ago
      Trust me, it's much worse out there, in the off-line world.
  • cbd1984 11y ago
    That's always been true. Look at Standard Oil for an example.