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Malcolm Gladwell: We Should All Be Disagreeable
- Quequau 8y agoOK. Malcolm Gladwell is a shady propagandist who should not be trusted. Instead people should go find actual experts in the whatever field Gladwell is propagandising about and read their work directly.
- grosjona 8y agoI don't think that being disagreeable necessarily helps. What society really needs is for rich people to be better at filtering out opportunists from people who actually care about their craft. Right now, most wealthy individuals are grotesquely incapable at this - They conflate success with skill but the majority of the time, they are completely unrelated (at least in the current state of the economy). If wealthy people were better at isolating these 2 concepts, then ironically, the correlation between them would be stronger. In a globalized economy where everyone works in huge groups, it's extremely unjust to measure someone's individual skill based on the success of their group - Yet it's what all rich people are doing all the time. They look for previous experience at successful companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon... Without considering the huge range of skills that those companies contain.