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If you are being a team player because that's what's needed for you to succeed personally then isn't being a team player the selfish strategy?
by testvox 9y ago
If you are being a team player because that's what's needed for you to succeed personally then isn't being a team player the selfish strategy?
- allendoerfer 9y agoTaken to the extreme: If you do good to feel good, you are selfish. But I don't think it matters to the outside. Let's judge the whole person and not some Freudian ego of him.
- grasshopperpurp 9y agoI agree with this as a standard for judging others, which is what your post addresses, so I have no disagreement with it. For your self, though, if you are doing good only to feed your ego, the appetite of your ego is still the driving force, so your morality will be subject to the whims of your ego, which means that you're a fair-weather do-gooder - sure to do bad when your ego demands it.
- csomar 9y agoYou are not taking it to the extreme. You are just discovering that "selfishness" is not hard-defined. It is relative, and thus one cannot measure it through different people since each one of them will perceive it differently.
- warent 9y agoYes. Being kind and sharing with other people typically leads to a positive outcome for ourselves. Even altruism feels good on the inside--otherwise nobody would do it. The Dalai Lama calls this "wise selfishness"
- vostok 9y agoAnd Gus Levy, of Goldman Sachs fame, called it long-term greedy.
- cyberpunk0 9y agoBig surprise, the ghost train guy would have used a ghost train..
- davidshalev 9y agoThe true manipulator doesn't need the warm glow of altruism to pursue his ambitions. The rich manipulator calculates everything as zero-sum and sees people for their utility to be exploited.