Definition #
Hacksterism — Hacksterism is the dominant restaurant industry worldview about what it means to run a successful restaurant: it says success comes from finding and stacking the right transactional hacks — deploying transactional means against a relational goal — rather than building a relational operation from the ground up.
Family #
Canon. Worldview layer member of the consultancy-face family under [Transactional Arbitrage]. Architectural parent of [Hack Funnel] (its operating form in the consultancy domain) and upstream of [Static Decline] (its terminal consequence). Two Roads → Road 1 worldview at the consultancy level.
Why Behind the Thinking #
Names the worldview, not the person. Not a character claim about any individual consultant. Same logic as [Static Decline] naming the consequence, not the operator who lands in it. Process-read discipline holds. [Hacksterism] is a worldview; [Hack Funnel] is its operating form in the consultancy domain; [Static Decline] is what it produces when run against a relational goal long enough for the runway to expose the math.
Pairs With #
[Hack Funnel], [Static Decline], [Two Roads], [H³], [Transactional Arbitrage], [Transactional Asphyxiation], [Transactional Thinking], [Transactional Fix], [Transactional Pushers]
Placement #
Core Architecture
