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You and your work are not an island. My productivity is not just my own, I am aided by mentors, supported by smart teammates, etc. I find your hyper individuali

You and your work are not an island. My productivity is not just my own, I am aided by mentors, supported by smart teammates, etc. I find your hyper individualist mindset very depressing and isolating. I think it would be foolish to claim that any success or talent of mine or my team is solely my own. I believe in social obligations, not just in the context of work, but in general. My goal is not to maximize my personal salary, but to live in a world that is more humane and more just and treats everyone, including myself, with dignity and respect. > Do you share a bank account with them? Why not? No, because I don’t have a pension, but many people do and I am fully in support of the concept.

chordalkeyboard 6y ago
> I find your hyper individualist mindset very depressing and isolating. I’m not a hyper individualist, a lot of this seems to be interpretation you’re bringing. > I think it would be foolish to claim that any success or talent of mine or my team is solely my own. There’s definitely a way to consider a person’s individual productivity in the context of a team of people they work with. Its not easy to measure or quantify and its definitely got subjective elements but some people are more productive than others and in a team that shares work, someone has to do the work that other people don’t do or it doesn’t get done. > I believe in social obligations, not just in the context of work, but in general. I believe in the power of incentives to shape behavior and I think there is a soft social obligation to align incentives so that they encourage desired behavior.