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The term asshole is very subjective; some people will perceive being candid and telling it how it is as being mean while others love the straightforwardness. Bo
by miguelmota 7y ago
The term asshole is very subjective; some people will perceive being candid and telling it how it is as being mean while others love the straightforwardness. Bosses have to put emotions aside to think more logically and that comes off as unsympathetic when talking to employees or partners. Steve Jobs was known to not have been the nicest guy yet he’s praised all the time.
- jschwartzi 7y agoYou're talking about being nice, not being an asshole. Assholes are people who come in and shit all over everything instead of trying to play fair. People who are not nice can be fair. Take as an analogy the difference between social class and economic class, and how people can have a social class that's different from their economic class.
- miguelmota 7y agoBeing apathetic and selfish are some attributes that both assholes and top billionaires exhibit. I'd say it’s not so black and white and people will perceive what being nice means to them differently depending on their social economic status since people of lower economic status tend to be more susceptible to emotions than a business person.
- jschwartzi 7y agoYeah, I was trying to use social and economic class as a metaphor for asshole versus not-nice. Because it's easy to conflate the two in both cases.