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> I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, c
by scandox 8y ago
> I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say "I don't care" with a straight face, and really mean it.
What's interesting to me is that a man could reach the age of 31 and still be talking like this. It's teenage language.
At the same time he's also so clearly in command of his domain.
I think expertise and power in one domain can really stunt your development in others.
- pjc50 8y ago> teenage language. It's machismo. We don't hear very much of this any more from adult professionals in Western desktop jobs, but it's definitely out there. Even in the tweets of certain high controversy members of government.
- mruts 8y agoYou should try working at a bank. Finance professionals are probably the most immature group of people I have ever worked with.
- peterwwillis 8y agoWell, not to be too pedantic, but it's more career-focused hypermasculinity. Machismo is an Iberian-originating concept which isn't solely negative properties. When immature people don't get taught what machismo or other gender-focused values systems are actually about, they end up with just the negative values. But you can have someone who's "macho" or "manly" regarding their career and also not a dick.