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I hate this article. I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y". I hate it because either: 1) The
by jxcole 17y ago
I hate this article.
I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y".
I hate it because either:
1) The statements x and y are opposites and combine to be a truism. Truisms are not interesting. (from the 2nd and 3rd matrix) "Some things change, and others don't".
2) The generalization is demonstrably false or unknowable.
In this article in partiular, I found a sort of weird mesh. The second and third category are clear opposites of each other. They are a truism in that you can say "A rich person either will keep on trying to get rich, or will stop after a while." This is roughly equivalent to what these categories represent.
The first category is sort of contained in the second category. Or, more accurately, if someone is going to stop trying to make money after a while, they will either stop because they are comfortable or because they are being looked up to. Not exactly mind blowing information.
I feel that broad categorization of people is useless. People are not either one thing or another. People have features in quantities. Fuzzy logic rules over binary in the world of humans. It would be nice and easy if humans were so simple, but they are not.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoI hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y". I hate it because either: 1) ... 2) ... Irony :)
- gizmo 17y agoAlthough I don't disagree with any of your assertions, I think TFA is interesting because it observes that all the people who want to be rich don't actually want to be rich. The first group considers money the solution to insecurity. Money is not what they want, they want to be confident and date models. The second group doesn't want money (they just want some money) and the third group is playing a game. They want to win, and the metric is money. People state the desire to be rich often enough, but there are only very few people who really want to be rich. I think the blog pointed that out pretty well.