After Dinner Conversation - Business Ethics

“The Pool”: A good-willed apartment complex owner deals with ever-complaining tenants as she attempts community improvements.

“First Gold”: A graphic designer is called out when he wins a design prize for an advertisement he plagiarized.

“Pandora's Dreams”: A new technology allows the recording, playback, and sale of dreams.

“Cicada”: Dr. Zhang invents teleportation but refuses to share it with the world.

“Claim”: The local diocese requests insurance coverage against future child sexual abuse lawsuits.

Thorn: A local builder comes across an upstart carpenter in a neighboring village that he believes threatens his business.

“Guilt-Edge Security”: A traveling salesman at the bar is cleverly pitched a new product by an emerging planet on the rim, Life.

“The Money Box”: A mysterious black box gives its users "unearned" money, but at what price?

“Lev's Pawn Shop”: A dying pawn shop own looks to return all the items in his shop to settle his account with God.

“Bugs In the Valley”: A pharmaceutical company turns a rare flower into an equally rare medicine that cures cancer and stops aging.