LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life
LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life
lI can hardly count the number of times I was overseen, forgotten, passed, etc all because I was too friendly and non-intrusive. This meme is very true.
Yes, and unfortunately that's why the world is the way it is. If empathy, creativity and humility were the values that would take us forward in society, everyone would be better off. But that's a utopia that will never happen, I'm afraid. Because there will always be people who take advantage of the good nature of others to gain an advantage for themselves. That seems to be human nature - and will also be the downfall of humanity, I think. The tyranny of selfishness, built on the shoulders of good people and only made possible by their ruthless exploitation.
Money doesn't corrupt people. Corrupt people are just better at getting money.
Not true. Money often does corrupt people, because money is very often the means to power, and power definitely corrupts most people over time.
This got me thinking. What about people who get rich by luck, winning a lottery or something?
They aren't corrupt, but they'll surely turn into assholes anyway, when they justify their luck to themselves and start doing asshole actions to guard their precious money. It's the same thing with inheritance or getting lucky in business. They'll talk about "self-made" success, even if they just bought a lottery ticket.
In my opinion, money does corrupt people. It's just through ordinary greed. Litteral corruption or cheating isn't even necessary to see this effect that money has.
Lottery players tend to have a specific personality type. Desperate or gambling addicts or generally bad with money. Regardless, winning a lottery is not a sustaining income plan. It's fast easy money and the most responsible thing to do with it is pay off debts or other necessities. Not giving your second cousin that you haven't seen the the family reunion 10 years ago a handout to get their business going isn't really an asshole move.
People who seemingly became asshole when they got rich were probably just asshole all along. You can sometimes see that attribute poking out from under someone's mask when they aren't careful. Ever native how if you criticize a rich person's attitude, someone will chime in that they're successful, so it's ok?
There are some rich people who either luck into money and remain humble and quite. Those people are more or less invisible in the news cycle. If you find one or two in your area and you do charity work, you can sometimes approach them for donations.
There are also those who are successful small business owners and all of them that I've dealt with have some degree of asshole behavior, but that comes with the territory. If you let yourself be a pushover will bills or late deliveries, you lose. If they can compartmentalize, they're fine, but I know some who can't turn it off. You always feel like you're walking on eggshells around them.
Sadly true, also the reason that most c-levels are also assholes. They want power and money and being an asshole is damn near a requirement to do so.
Go full on New York City on them.
"Eat my ass, fuckwad!"
That's just normal pleasantries exchanged in passing.
"And may you eat mine as well, my good dickhead!"
I can give you the exact opposite example.
Meassure your assholeness people.
Also the more often you're an asshole, the less likely you'll have friends available to help you get out of a sticky situation without having to resort to being an asshole. So instead of being as asshole, do people favours if they're not assholes, and then maybe you'll have someone you can call on who'll come through for you too if the need arises.