I guess you mean that the story is harmfully reductive or demands further critical examination, but I just want to defend telling oneself stories as a thinking tool.
I wanted to say that good vs evil are hardly absolutes. No one at a large corporate comes to work saying: today I will be evil again.
Instead they tell themselves they’re helping investors getting a good return, or that they’re “smashing Google for copying iOS”.
There is a great quote by Shakespeare saying: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
I’d say storytelling makes it so!
The many parts of the agreements were clearly net negative outcomes for markets and users. Basic forms of collusion and cartel making were common.
