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August 16, 2041
“To seek to influence others for our own benefit is surely a survival trait as much as it is a policy for profit. Marketing has been around as long as the so-called oldest profession. Marketing is neither inherently good nor evil. Can the puppeteer be called a villain if the puppet hands him its strings?”
The Speeches of Damon Leiter
The Speeches of Damon Leiter Collected by V.A. Klug
No matter where Damon went, he couldn’t hide from the news: Dyna-Mantech BCI had been the top performer on world stock exchanges for weeks. And its rising tide had floated all boats—especially boats tied to the D-M juggernaut. The two dozen prime clients that had ridden the Vanquish bandwagon from the beginning were swamped with orders, awash in a rain of every majo
