User blog comment:BastionMonk/How bad was Peter Ludlow?/@comment-1791057-20130523191135/@comment-6493791-20130523204848

Your not seeing the point; Hammond was NOT DOING HIS JOB! InGen was to make money, and it wasn't. This company was not a charity for animals and for environmentalist views. It was strictly made to make money, and found a new monopoly of dinosaur zoos.

So, in a sense, Ludlow DID in fact have a right to take control of the company. He DID in fact have the abilities and evidence to properly take his uncles place. He also didn't sue Malcolm, which your saying he should have, but let's face it; even if he did, Malcolm's university still would've revoked his tenure, fired him, and put a  black-mark on his record, along with perminant court issues. I'm sorry, but Ludlow clearly isn't the "conniving business man who played the Board of Directors greed". As much as you might not want to believe it, things in this world won't and don't come for free. That's the way the world works, and how it should work. Think of how many employees suffered due to Hammond's business negligience. Think of how many were probably laid-off in the stock-drop. And, even after all this, Hammond still wanted to make a "Nature Preserve". Isn't that wonderful? Using peoples money that you promised return on to make a personal "Lost World". A terrible use of money, and a terrible way to portray Hammond, as he was a brilliant business man in the novel... Not the right way to spend investors money. So obviously, Ludlow is more like a GOOD business man, not a conniving greedy-one. Yes, he had greed. BUT, everyone in the business world has SOME of that.