You want to be careful with that one.
The injunctions of the Plutarch’s Code, the Golden God, and the ciseflish Path of Ever-Growing Plenitude (which very heavily influenced the former, trading highly on the marketplace of ideas both figuratively and literally) are against cheating. One would never, for example, secure legal monopolies, or try to regulate one’s competition out of business, or default on contracts, or go back on one’s word, or play games with tariffs and subsidies, or engage in actual violence or sabotage or other things that are thuggish and unmerchantly and interfere with other sophs’ sacred right to seek profit wherever they may find it.
On the other hand, as cooperation is a fundamental necessity of trade, so is competition. That’s how one identifies one’s mistakes, or more accurately, everyone’s mistakes which are reducing the value added to the universe, or worst of all, subtracting value from it.
(It’s all about Entropy, after all.)
So those same plutarchs who would never, ever dream of interfering with each other’s sacred right to seek profit, on the one hand, and will cheerfully cooperate with each other in joint ventures, and offer each other warm friendship and hospitality will also cheerfully run each other out of business if they think there’s an opportunity to be had and someone’s failing in their corresponding duty to reap the market’s bounty and add value to the universe - and the person on the receiving end of this market correction will be grateful for it¹.
Because they were wrong, and now they can be right, and their ledger is going to look better in the final accounting because of it.
- This may not come naturally if you’re not a ciseflish, but you’re supposed to accept alathkháln with good grace, in this area as in all others.