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reputation of corporate greed. Tie in the politicians and the lobbyists, and it
becomes crony capitalism. Furthering the perception, anytime a money-chaser

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cheats value and is exposed for fraud or poor business practices (people like
Madoff, Rothstein, Pearlman, or corporate leadership like Koslowski, Ebbers,
Lay), it makes headlines, ruffling feathers and tarring perceptions. Defrauded
investors, cheated customers, and unsavory business practices herd eyeballs;
entrepreneurs living with integrity do not.
While I don’t deny corporate misdeeds and stakeholder abandonment, they
aren’t the prevailing majority for small business. For every negative story
grabbing headlines and spotlighting the villain narrative, there’s a buried bag
of positive stories you’ll never read about.
The masses confirm the villain narrative every time a business cheats value.
This Green Tea Fat Burner doesn’t work! This expensive real-estate seminar is
just a big upsell into a more expensive seminar! That politician promised me
free health care! Sorry, 
you’re poor because you keep buying shit you shouldn’t
buy—including fantasies that don’t exist
.
In aggregate, these overt messages obscure the money hyperreality and
darken its shadow to some murky apparition ready to smother its victims into
poverty. Value, erased. Solutions, solved but forgotten. The end result is the
poverty scam: “Income inequality! I’m poor because that dude’s rich! Give me
my poster board so I can protest!” Find yourself believing such dualistic
nonsense ratified by the villain narrative and, sorry, enjoy your tent in Zuccotti
Park while you “Feel the Bern.”