Chapter 32. Unfair Advantages

 

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

 
 --John Fitzgerald Kennedy, U.S. president.Press conference, March 21, 1962.

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Some might view your advantages as unfair. Not illegal, mind you. Just unfair. These matters tend to be personal in nature and the more secretive and unknown, the more potent the advantage. For example, if you were to seek to compete with an international telecommunications cartel there would certainly be an advantage in having the pro-active support of the president of the United States of America. Would obtaining that support be legal? Assuming that there were no untoward financial involvement, ...

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