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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hootie" data-source="post: 1399051" data-attributes="member: 7031">I'm in complete agreement that humans, as opposed to just middlemen, are fully self serving.  People can delude and twist their internal dialogue into whatever narrative fits their aims.   My patience, providing the benefit of the doubt, and implicit trust has rarely been rewarded in business.  These are tough but necessary lessons to learn in life. OP is asking if human nature and industry norms make it acceptable to for him to be a shark too and eat this naive kids lunch.  The answer is yes but don't pretend you're any different than the guy on the other side of the table.   A middleman's job is to make a market.  In this case, a recruiter was priming our friends mind that this opp @ said organization might be of interest.  We'll learn the outcome soon enough</blockquote>