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Because making as much profit as possible is the only virtue worth pursuing if you believe most comments on Hn. We’re basically Ferengui.

>>Phenom+(OP)
> Ferengui

A fitting typo!

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Every dark-pattern included as standard components. Upgrade to Pro to get the price-fixing and hidden monero miner modules.

>>Phenom+(OP)
There was a line Rom says in DS9 that think sums the Ferengi up pretty well: "We don't want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters."

>>Phenom+(OP)
Rule of Acquisition no. 2 “The best deal is the one that brings the most profit.”

>>omnimu+I4
What's no. 1, or am I unintentionally beckoning you to violate it in making it vocal?

>>Fluore+h4
I think you’re on to something, especially when that’s where most of the big scale enterprises end up.

>>Obscur+99
Actually the rule above is “non-cannon” [0]. In the official rules [1] number 1 is:

> Once you have their money, you never give it back.

There is no official rule 2 so the non-cannon one is as good as any and the unwritten rule [2]:

> When no appropriate rule applies, make one up

Means they probably would have been covered either way.

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Ap...

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Of...

[2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Un...

>>joshst+kd
This is all unintentionally amusing to me :)

>>Obscur+3e
Very nullsome ;)