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When business partners face ethical dilemmas driven by financial pressure

My business partner and I disagree about taking on a big client whose values don't align with ours but whose contract would solve our cash flow problems for the next year, and we're discovering we have different definitions of what compromises are acceptable when money gets tight.

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Two people are using a business decision to negotiate fundamental questions about integrity under financial stress.

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