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It's true that the average person has a set amount of weirdness points and needs to use them somewhat sparingly. But there are certain cases where a person mig
by jawns 7y ago
It's true that the average person has a set amount of weirdness points and needs to use them somewhat sparingly.
But there are certain cases where a person might have more weirdness points available to them than the average person and can spend them more freely:
* If you are physically attractive, you often get an extra helping of weirdness points to spend.
* If you are a celebrity or a person with lots of power, you get an extra-large extra helping.
* If you are obscenely rich, you can buy just about as many weirdness points as you want.
- SkyBelow 7y agoIf you look at how crime enforcement works against the attractive/popular/wealthy, I think they get far more than an extra helping.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoAs an attractive, well-liked and reasonably wealthy individual, I consider it to be my moral duty to be weird as hell.
- Falling3 7y agoSome of that is a productive of the fact that the justice system is run by humans doing human things. But part of that is the design of our system in that it's designed to protect wealth.
- livueta 7y agoIn the words of Terry Pratchett: '... he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.'
- thorwasdfasdf 7y agoI think this is a very accurate depiction. Also, if you're popular for some reason, you'll get more weirdness points as well.
- meddlepal 7y agoWeird and poor: you're labeled crazy. Weird and rich: you're labeled eccentric.
- ars 7y agoIn a way it makes sense: Someone poor who is strange is a burden on others, which someone rich who is strange isn't, since they can pay for whatever weird thing they do.
- david-cako 7y agoIn another way it makes sense, divergent thinking is tolerated for the very purpose of evaluating how effective new ideas are, and we ourselves tolerate being weird because we believe we can prove something new. One decides how far to push the envelope and how much they can tolerate seeming crazy. That’s how you earn trust in your judgement.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt is a side effect of the "fitness function" evaluation of humans. If a person is "successful" it is taken for granted that they are doing something right even if it is irrelevant. It isn't just wealth that benefits from this - social standing or a respected talent alone can do it.
- rlonn 7y agoThis is one of the main reasons I've been doing the entrepreneurial race almost all my adult life. I need to prove myself enough, by accumulating professional success and wealth, to get enough weirdness points to spend so that I can just be myself! It's a sad state of things.
- staticautomatic 7y agoOr make fuck you money with which to purchase the points.
- cryoshon 7y agoi feel like i'm in the same boat. if i don't suceed in my entrepreneurial labor to make my own (new and unique) path, there's no way i can express myself and be accepted most of the time. until then, going with someone else means conforming in a way i simply can't, even when i desperately want to.
- fuzzfactor 7y ago>When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. _Hunter S. Thompson
- sharadov 7y agoWhen I was poor they called me crazy, now that I am rich they call me eccentric.
- teh_infallible 7y agoYou don’t even need to be exceptionally rich or attractive. Just enough of both qualities, and the ability to surf through your life. Some people have an artistic quality which enables them to be weird, because we have seen them be weird before, and we trust their ability to keep themselves afloat.
- dTal 7y ago> If you are physically attractive, you often get an extra helping of weirdness points to spend I think this shouldn't count - you've just haven't spent some points on being weird lookin'.