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I had the same initial reaction. Seeing something written that can be amounted to $ > person looks wrong.

Yet, importance is subjective. If you're working on your own pet code for your own pleasure, business has no importance. If you want to transform that into your main revenue source, business is the most important thing, because no amount of user love will transform into practical revenue if your software serves no-one.

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If your project is useful to users and requires money to continue, it is in their interest that you make money. The business is just an abstraction around the fact that your users need you to be able to do the thing.

It's not really $ > person.

It's group of people A, who are conducting a [series of] transaction(s) with group of people B. It so happens that the wares being exchanged are currency vs. software but that's really besides the point.

Group of people A ≹ Group of people B

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