What was Aristotle's position on selling in particular and commerce more generally?

Question

What was Aristotle's position on selling in particular and commerce more generally?

Answer 1

Simply put, the idea of the "honest businessman."  Aristotle argued that, no matter how crafty or clever a dishonest salesman was, in the end the poor quality of his product would result in the death of his business.  In fact Aristotle was, in a way, the founding father of the capitalist principle, that you allow as much freedom as humanly possible, because ultimately a salesman dishonesty would catch up with them.  Therefore, the Scotsman argued, the dude who is credited with inventing free market capitalism, it is better to have as little regulation as possible.  The United States of America owes its great wealth to a Scottish thinker; it was thanks to him, that we have the practice of "free market capitalism."  The Scotsman based his argument based on his readings regarding Aristotle, however many of Aristotles maxims regarding the "honest businessman" are indeed dated.

Take for example the Xbox 360; unless people sell that thing soon, Microsoft will butt f*ck them.  They will take the money and run, not fix any faulty consoles, and millions of pissed off 360 owners will either run to the store and buy a PS3 or be so soured by the experience, they will just give up gaming outright.  The 360 will not be remembered as the system that revolutionized gaming, nor will it be remembered as the "first true next console."  No; it will be remembered, as the console that ushered in the second catastrophe of the video game era, akin to the 1983 one.  And it will be up to Sony, to clean up Microsoft's mess.

Then again I envision the Japanese as cleaning up a lot of the messes white people period have made; in the future, I see Japanese culture as playing a crucial, central role in healing the wounds inflicted on the nonwhite world by whites.  And I see Chinese culture, as being the dominant culture of the world in the future, not because Chinese will settle en masse in other parts of the planet (that has already happened), but, wanting to look deeper into Asian culture, out of gratitude for the Japanese, most of the world will inevitably end up adopting the best elements of Chinese culture.

All the efforts of white people to harm and destroy others, will ultimately come to nothing.

I personally see the 360 as an expression of both western power, and western dishonesty.  I can not think of a gaming console so symbolic of the culture that produced it, than the Xbox 360.  Hotter than a dragon's breath, seemingly powerful but ultimately, on the inside, "very low quality."

It was a red, ring, of death!  (console's hotter than a dragon's breath!)  it was a red, ring, of death!!!!!

Answer 2

he  was    hiding   under  the  cash register..  in  a   fetal  position!!