It is managers whose primary responsibility seems to be to pursue these, and as a result managers can be seen as ‘cultivators of consumptive acquisitiveness’,21 or as proponents of the vice of pleonexia, ‘the drive to have more and more’22 which, in modern societies, has become a virtue rather than a vice, or so MacIntyre has argued. And, developing MacIntyre’s thought somewhat, it has also been argued that managers, in pursuing external goods such as profit, and hence the scale economies which enable these, become destroyers of small-scale communities of virtue.
