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In the wrong hands, all our best ideas become disgusting ideological tools for oppression. How many people have been murdered for truth, freedom, beauty, etc? Doesn't make the ideals any less appealing, or indeed any less worthwhile. You just have to use them for the right purposes - for example, not "to maximise shareholder value" - a depressingly lame and dehumanising goal for any organisation.


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