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Your advice is to be selfish and not care what anyone thinks of you?

rambambram 5y ago
No, on the contrary. It's not very clear from my post, but I warn people not to expect any gratitude when they selflessly give their cookies away. And if you do share your cookies (which is a good thing!), be careful who you share it with. That's all.
- marcus_holmes 5y ago
  Having been in the position of selflessly giving my cookies away with no expectation of reward - the reward was amazing, and worth way more than the cookies.
  - rambambram 5y ago
    Perfect! I live for these moments.
rambambram 5y ago
Besides, the so called 'leaders' in this experiment were pretty selfish. Making all kinds of gross noises while eating their cookie. Did they care what somebody else thought of them?
- lelanthran 5y ago
  > Besides, the so called 'leaders' in this experiment were pretty selfish. Making all kinds of gross noises while eating their cookie. Did they care what somebody else thought of them? That bit made me suspect the study - that the "leader" ate the cookie is believable, that they did so in a semi-vindictive manner is not believable. I want to see the actual study.
  - teekert 5y ago
    I find all aspect difficult to believe. I call bs.
  - FabHK 5y ago
    > I want to see the actual study. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/power-approach-inhibition https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...
    - lelanthran 5y ago
      That's not the paper cited in the study. It is also not a study, but a meta-study (review of existing literature on the subject). In short, it doesn't address the concerns I list in my post.
- ngc248 5y ago
  A bit of artistic license i suppose ... its supposed evoke a feeling of disgust against the leader"
GDC7 5y ago
> Your advice is to be selfish and not care what anybody thinks about you? Well if one wants to be cynical that's how big fortunes and generally big advantages to self happen. That is behaving selfishly and somehow manage to avoid repercussions. Just two examples from stuff that is in the news these days: 1) The grift happened during the War on terror (especially 2001-2010) which somehow was never investigated 2) Members of the rock band "The Rolling Stones" . They cumulatively slept with thousands of married women and women in relationships. They all somehow managed to avoid the husbands and boyfriends looking for their wives. Most of them had homicidal intent against Mick Jagger and their unfaithful wife.

No, on the contrary. It's not very clear from my post, but I warn people not to expect any gratitude when they selflessly give their cookies away. And if you do share your cookies (which is a good thing!), be careful who you share it with. That's all.

marcus_holmes 5y ago
Having been in the position of selflessly giving my cookies away with no expectation of reward - the reward was amazing, and worth way more than the cookies.
- rambambram 5y ago
  Perfect! I live for these moments.

rambambram 5y ago

Besides, the so called 'leaders' in this experiment were pretty selfish. Making all kinds of gross noises while eating their cookie. Did they care what somebody else thought of them?

lelanthran 5y ago
> Besides, the so called 'leaders' in this experiment were pretty selfish. Making all kinds of gross noises while eating their cookie. Did they care what somebody else thought of them? That bit made me suspect the study - that the "leader" ate the cookie is believable, that they did so in a semi-vindictive manner is not believable. I want to see the actual study.
- teekert 5y ago
  I find all aspect difficult to believe. I call bs.
- FabHK 5y ago
  > I want to see the actual study. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/power-approach-inhibition https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...
  - lelanthran 5y ago
    That's not the paper cited in the study. It is also not a study, but a meta-study (review of existing literature on the subject). In short, it doesn't address the concerns I list in my post.
ngc248 5y ago
A bit of artistic license i suppose ... its supposed evoke a feeling of disgust against the leader"

GDC7 5y ago

> Your advice is to be selfish and not care what anybody thinks about you? Well if one wants to be cynical that's how big fortunes and generally big advantages to self happen. That is behaving selfishly and somehow manage to avoid repercussions. Just two examples from stuff that is in the news these days: 1) The grift happened during the War on terror (especially 2001-2010) which somehow was never investigated 2) Members of the rock band "The Rolling Stones" . They cumulatively slept with thousands of married women and women in relationships. They all somehow managed to avoid the husbands and boyfriends looking for their wives. Most of them had homicidal intent against Mick Jagger and their unfaithful wife.