The Social Construct Of Business

In all of the natural world, there is no such thing as a business that exists by default.  Likewise, businesses are not the abstract, necessary truths of logic, nor are they some other nonphysical or physical thing that exists without multiple beings having formed them.  In the most simple business transaction possible, two beings are required, one serving as both an employer and employee if these roles are not held by separate people and the other serving as a consumer, as I have addressed previously [1].  Modern people might be so accustomed to business, and even to there being a multitude of diverse businesses around them, that the status of business as a social construct of sorts is completely ignored or unrecognized.

Like the money business is intended to generate, business itself is not a social construct in the sense that gender stereotypes or unjust legal punishments would be.  This latter kind of social construct is a philosophical error that deviates from the truth, something that is contrary to reality and only believed in, practiced, or tolerated by irrationalistic fools.  The different kind of social construct, like business or every kind of currency from all of history, is something contrived or established by people that would not exist without them (or at least a small group of some other type of analogous being).  Language would be another example.  There are no words without a conscious being to use them, though the logical possibility of creating languages is still present.

Money and business have a similar status in other ways because of this: to live for them as opposed to in the midst of a society that features them is highly irrational.  They are only a means to achieve a goal other than themselves, and so to mistake them for an intrinsic part of reality or a meaningful goal in themselves is a pathetic error.  Other than blind intellectual and existential "autopilot," desperation to get by, a desire for recognition, or an emotionalistic love of accomplishment (as opposed to one constrained by rationalism) are the only reasons why someone would love business as anything more than a means to something else.  All of these are subjective preferences that are invalid as grounds for any belief except that someone experiencing them has the preferences.

Besides the objective truth about its philosophical nature and relationship with morality, other metaphysics, and everything else that is connected to it because of these relationships, there is no reason to care about business other than practical usefulness in achieving a goal or subjective appreciation or fascination.  This is all that there is to the subject of business beyond the more foundational, abstract truths about it and how it relates to things far deeper or otherwise more significant than itself.  Even its practicality relies on more fundamental, important things: business is practical for some things because it can help people achieve financial or material goals necessary for survival, for flourishing beyond survival, or for stimulating self-actualization--and these things are themselves dependent on logic and the nature of morality in order to be meaningful.

[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2023/01/power-in-business-part-1-employers.html