A friend and I were discussing this. It seems like these days it’s more rewarding, objectively, to be a shitbag than to actually be a good human. We’re constantly being played for suckers despite having morals. Everyone else is cheating in this tragedy of the moral commons.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
There’s a selection bias, we usually hear about the most successful shitbags. Most ordinary shitbags live pretty terrible lives. Just look at the life of the typical red state resident. Usually working their ass off in a blue collar for some plutocrat who abuses them, subjected to country music all day long. Almost makes me feel bad for them.
There have been studies done that show that the prevalence of Dark Triad traits rises, the higher you look in a hierarchical structure. C-suites have roughly three times the prevalence of these traits compared to the general population. The selection is being done by the system.
Other societies (as an anecdotal example, the Inuit) have ways of removing such individuals from the population because of the damage they do to group survivability. Take one out ice-fishing, push him in the hole, 3 minutes later, problem solved.
A friend and I were discussing this. It seems like these days it’s more rewarding, objectively, to be a shitbag than to actually be a good human. We’re constantly being played for suckers despite having morals. Everyone else is cheating in this tragedy of the moral commons.
It has always been like that.
There’s a selection bias, we usually hear about the most successful shitbags. Most ordinary shitbags live pretty terrible lives. Just look at the life of the typical red state resident. Usually working their ass off in a blue collar for some plutocrat who abuses them, subjected to country music all day long. Almost makes me feel bad for them.
There have been studies done that show that the prevalence of Dark Triad traits rises, the higher you look in a hierarchical structure. C-suites have roughly three times the prevalence of these traits compared to the general population. The selection is being done by the system.
Other societies (as an anecdotal example, the Inuit) have ways of removing such individuals from the population because of the damage they do to group survivability. Take one out ice-fishing, push him in the hole, 3 minutes later, problem solved.
Same goes for most ordinary non-shitbags.
The point is, just because one shitbag gets away with it, that shouldn’t motivate you to also become a shitbag.
I hope you don’t think this is just a recent thing…
Enter the church
At some point there will be a correction and history will not look kindly on these people.
I don’t give a toss what history will do. It’s up to us.
Dude people have been waiting for that since before Jesus Christ.
Victors wright the history books my friend