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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What I don't get is when people who will never ever own a business parrot this. Humanity has been hacked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't know the term for this, but this is most likely related to projecting.

Basically, by treating the people you kind of want to be well or something, you're kind of making a deal, subconsciously, with "the universe", ultimately hoping that your good behavior is rewarded (sooner than later) and you get to be the rich one. Maybe part of it is about some instinct to submit, to follow a leader rather than to be one, too; maybe it's about trying to signal to the powers that be that you're good and should be rewarded.

Of course, all of this is a load of crap, but these are the relatively easier ways to think about things, which ends up to be less taxing on our (admittedly) lazy brain.

Bias be biasing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Often people believe in what they where raised to believe. That's true for all of the views in ethics, politics, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Society is a really shitty simulation made by psychotic sadists. No "hacking" was necessarily required. We all agreed to it by doing nothing to actually stop it. Some people just agree more fervently than others. Can definitely be argued as a sort of stockholm syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If people feel they're being treated well they'll defend the guy who overcharges them so he can make enough money to become a multi millionaire while they struggle to afford having a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I love the "more money == more risks".

It is both wrong and encorages risky behavior from those trying to get ahead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Eh. It's kind of true. But mostly at the entrepreneurial level. For someone that starts a business, using their own money, they're the one assuming the risk of failure. So you can reasonably argue that, if it works out, they should be paid more. (To a degree.) But for most supervisors and executives, no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What dies the show have to do with the text?