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Rich people would consider being soft and cynical as virtuous? There's no way to read the quote in a positive manner.
by hnal943 7y ago
Rich people would consider being soft and cynical as virtuous? There's no way to read the quote in a positive manner.
- coldtea 7y agoOf course there is: soft => more refined and subtle, cynical => more wise to the world.
- eswat 7y agoThat is how I read it as well. I’d imagine being someone that is cynical and wealthy protects your wealth from forces that would suck less cynical people dry (multilevel marketing, get-rich-from-real-estate seminars, stocks currently riding the wave of the hot rumour of the week).
- mirimir 7y agoI read "soft" as more mellow and chilled out, and less stressed about (what seems) trivial stuff. In a way, even kinder. And from what I've read by rich people (such as Diane Disney Miller) cynical is a lot about the difficulty of establishing genuine relationships.
- munk-a 7y agoCynicism is definitely a virtue in a certain light. Trust is good for everyone while being bad for the individual, cynicism is good for the individual while hurting society. Personally I think both extremes are terrible, but leaning on the side of cynicism seems safer.
- compiler-guy 7y agoAn important detail is that the quote is not "they are soft and cynical", but rather: "soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful" In other words, how they are different from others. Not that they are fundamentally soft, cynicalm or bad.
- unkulunkulu 7y agoHow does adding an opposite as “fast where we are slow” specify anything?
- pdpi 7y agoIt emphasises that the contrast is the thing of interest, rather than the properties themselves.