Gesheft

Gesheft means business (sometimes not so clean), beneficial negotiation, good deal, profit, income, financial interest.

Ethimology
Perhaps, the word gesheft comes from the Yiddish (German and Jewish) cultures .

Religious aspect of Gesheft
In many cultures, the idea of relatively legal "gesheft" is dominant in the philosophy and the ideology, I would say, some kind of "cult of gesheft", so strong as some other taboos of the Western civilisation.

The idea of profit-less, non-commercial activity can be considered as some oppose of gesheft. Absolutisation of negation of any kind of gesheft can be considered as important part of sovetism and other kinds of fascism, when the State is supposed to think about everything, releasing the people from thinking, and, in particular, from thinking about their personal gesheft.

Modern examples
One family in the multi-store building makes an agreement with their neighbours, who live just above them, to cooperate for the internet: they pays for the odd months, and the neighbours pay for the even months. Similar agreement they make with neighbours, who live in the flat just below them. This can be qualified as "gesheft": by the negotiations, they get the internet for free. (Until the neighbours from the up communicate to those from the down and realise, what is happening.)

Scientific frauds, in particular, exploiting of the pseudo–scientific projects, can be qualified as gesheft.

Keyowrds
Philosophy, Business, Religion