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Does cheating on a girlfriend actually signal that a man will cheat in business?

By Fabrizio Rausa

The speaker pushes back on the popular online claim that cheating on a romantic partner proves a man lacks ethics and will deceive business partners too. His view is that romantic relationships and professional or friendship relationships operate on entirely different logic. In friendships and business, there is a genuine exchange of value, like the Godfather model where favours given are favours that can be called in later. That reciprocity makes trust rational. With women, he argues, the same investment logic does not apply: buying a car or expensive gifts may produce ten minutes of happiness and nothing more. So poor behaviour in one domain does not automatically predict it in the other.

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