Business confidentiality. . .

I often wonder how many "etsians" are actually business savvy and daily I am disappointed in the low percentage that are.  😡  

Today someone posted a thread about the possibility of Etsy changing the fee structure, this entire discussion is based on some second-hand information and guess work because someone's friend got a survey asking about fee structure.  Now it has been pointed out by someone else who received said survey that there was a non-disclosure clause and confidentiality agreement before the survey but apparently the person who posted thinks it's ok to go ahead and quote questions and give out private information because she was not the one who took the survey, not understanding that their friend is violating a legal agreement by sharing protected information and that she is in fact violating said agreement by proxy by publicly posting private and protected information that should not be being discussed in a public forum.  ~sigh~ stupid is as stupid does 😒

Yet they all get so offended if you point out to them that they are not real businesses, that many of them are not licensed and have no idea how to properly collect and remit sales taxes, they do not understand even the most basic concepts of business management, actually annoyingly many of them seem to have no reading comprehension or understanding of the meaning of words such as confidential.