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A polite word for the war we agreed to fight with spreadsheets instead of swords.
means The activity of buying, selling, or making things to earn money, or an organization set up to do exactly that.
from From Old English 'bisignes,' meaning anxiety, care, or being occupied — literally 'busy-ness,' the state of being busy. For centuries it just meant having things to attend to, a buzzing preoccupation; only later did it narrow into commerce and trade specifically. So every modern 'business' still carries the original whiff of restless, anxious busyness baked right into its bones.
- old meaning
- Once just meant being busy, anxiously occupied
- failure rate
- About half of new ones die within five years
- oldest firm
- A Japanese builder ran over 1,400 years
- card ritual
- Japan treats card exchange as near-sacred etiquette
- none of yours
- Privacy was invented the moment commerce was