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BUSINESS BUSINESS
The Business of
Business
CHIOMA PHILLIPS
he world of business
is a curious one. It
was set up by peo-
ensure that any wrong doing or
ple who, desiring to
anyone who feels unjustly treat-
Tprofit from trade with ed can get recourse, thereby
other people, established rules,
bringing checks and balances Business = Trade.
boundaries and guidelines in
to the system to in some way Against = In opposition to, not in
order to govern the world of
guarantee fair play. favor of.
trade. The trade involves the
This was all established under
buying and selling of goods and a system called Capitalism (the Profit = Gain.
services… and in some instanc- Competition = Rivalry, struggle,
dominant global economic sys-
es men and men’s souls. The war.
tem), which is supposed to be a
rules, they say, are intended to Fair = Just, reasonable.
free market system that allows
create impartiality and objec-
anyone with innovation and Capitalism = Money-ism.
tivity to create enabling envi- drive to succeed in ‘fair’ com- Company = Military unit
ronments for competition and
petition against other players in Strategy = Tactics and devices
diversity of companies to thrive
the system. employed to achieve the end
and – by so doing – cause
economies to thrive as well. game.
They also set up (perennially Business is War
evolving) arbitration systems Let’s pause briefly to consider Capitalism strongly entrenches
and laws that are meant to the contradictions in terms:
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