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I don't think radical honesty would ever work in a workplace. A very high level, yes, but not radical as it's usually meant.



The relationship of capitalism to truth is very significant as well, or maybe 'value generation' would be a better term to use here than capitalism.

Or as I usually phrase it, 'money is allergic to lies'.

Say you have an organization that is producing a product/service that provides genuine value for its users, and have a team of talented, hardworking people. Any factors related to the operations of said organization, obscuring those factors from the value producers can only lead to less effective operation overall, as the producers have less/lower quality/false information to work with.

"I don't feel like this is workplace appropriate" does not violate the 'radical honesty' principle.

At least internally, anyway. If your objective is to make as much money as possible, you probably don't want marketing to be radically honest LOL




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