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The abuser economy | deadSimpleTech Between the sheer ubiquity of the practices and the effort put into suppressing cognitive dissonance described above, people functioning in these environments wind up believing that this is simply how business is: the deeply coercive, consent-violating and harassing nature of these practices fade away and become invisible. And at that point, we have a problem, because participating in this culture becomes key to being accepted by the business community, and thus, for anyone working primarily business-to-business, to winning clients. You have to post constantly on LinkedIn aggrandising yourself. You have to have a large email list which you consistently spam. You have to use socially comprehensible sales tactics to sell, no matter how toxic and obnoxious they are, because they're part of the social script. And if you refuse to use these tactics, you will, as sure as night follows day, wind up marginalised and not allowed into the business world. https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/abuser_economy