> I completely disagree with your assertion here. I want an advantage over my competition, sure.. but I still want it to be fair.
Thank you for that. I really dislike the common model of capitalism where the entrepreneur is viewed as a robot whose only goal is to maximize profit with the law being the only boundary.
In my social bubble the landlords that I know care about their renters' wellbeing even if it costs them a bit. I only know a handful of entrepreneurs personally but for all of them fairness and dignity have greater value than profit. Also the millions of small shops in cities around the world that are content just selling enough every month to make a comfortable living with no goal of maximizing anything.
Yes, huge cooperations are different than the guy selling Kebab at the corner. But still I would appreciate if people would see entrepreneurship and businesses not so statically as money-maximizers.
It's something you can do if you want to. Nobody will stop you as long as it's legal, so there will be a non-trivial amount of companies doing just that. It doesn't matter that the guy on the cornerr is trying to be fair. At some point he'll be screwed by a kebab chain which pays the minimum wage and can use the economy of scale in deliveries.
And that's even before we talk about companies that go for risk*penalty<gain situations where they can ignore the law.
the one I know too... until the definition of fairness comes from some else than them... My point is that IMHO it takes extraordinary capabilities to make money by selling someone elses's work and maintaining high moral standards when it comes to solidarity, helping others, sharing profits, etc.