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One possible positive aspect is that it allows you to think: My current lousy situation is not the result of something internal and unchangeable, so it is wort
by bittercynic 8y ago
One possible positive aspect is that it allows you to think:
My current lousy situation is not the result of something internal and unchangeable, so it is worth figuring out how to change it and get into a better situation.
It's easy to take that attitude too far, but maybe keeping a little bit of it around could be helpful for some.
- Gibbon1 8y agoThat guy skipped right over the comment about collective action. For people that don't have the system pre-gamed for them the only why to fight back to prevent being exploited is collective action. Or taking lots of risks and being lucky. I'm not a take big risks and hope to be lucky kinda guy.
- 0815test 8y agoThe iron law of collective action is that it doesn't really work for large, dispersed groups. Collective action is how the old-boy-network perpetuates itself in the first place; you can try to raise the scale of feasible coordination so as to increase its social benefits, but it's a very hard problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
- Gibbon1 8y ago> The iron law of collective action Yet more conclusory statements.