self-destructive

comparative more self-destructive · superlative most self-destructive

1. Causing injury to oneself or harm to one's interests.

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   Between 1997 and 2006, ownership of Glenfeshie passed between three Danish businessmen – and with it a self-destructive business model. Only by maintaining very high numbers of livestock could the flow of fee-paying deerstalkers armed with rifles be ensured, but because of the rising cost of gamekeepers and estate upkeep, Glenfeshie’s sporting operations were still making a loss.

   2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian