[jltsiren]

The honest one would not be a businessman.

But this is probably culture-specific. When Finnish media describes someone as (the Finnish equivalent of) a businessman, he is almost certainly doing some shady stuff and has often also committed crimes. People described as entrepreneurs tend to be more respectable and more likely just doing legitimate business.

[dzhiurgis]

I'm from Lithuania and lots of people would do the same. I assumed this is some brainrot relic from soviet union, but thinking about this more, most of europe have same weird sentiment.