[WalterBright]

> at all costs

There's that strawman again. The rest of your argument depends on that, and so is invalid.

I know lots of people who started businesses with the intention of making money (including me). None of them were willing to go at it "at all costs". I don't know where you get this strawman.

[stavros]

It's from the post you replied to, from the part you quoted:

> the pill to swallow is that most employees including managers are grist to the mill

You can't pretend that this part of the conversation doesn't exist simply because you didn't write those words. You were replying to someone who very specifically said this, you were agreeing with them, and to then basically claim "oh I didn't write it, I merely heavily implied it by agreeing with the parent" is disingenuous.