I'm not surprised - I really do understand all of this and know how the game works and kinda even know how to play it, just .. I'm really reluctant to do it. If

I'm not surprised - I really do understand all of this and know how the game works and kinda even know how to play it, just .. I'm really reluctant to do it. If I did it would be a bit like in the famous quote from Groucho Marx : "I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member" The thing is that I was just really trying only to point out what a shitty system we have all developed together (we as a society) through this kind of tactics. I suspect that You are looking at this only through the point of view of individual that is optimizing their own outcomes (the individual being yourself probably). But I try to look at this from a bit more systemic point of view. And what I see from up there isn't pretty. Of course for me this isn't only purely theoretical thing - what really buggers me are the logical consequences of this system. For example I really do not want to work for someone that becomes by boss only because he can play social game (and maintain proper relationships with key persons in company). But the thing is, that in this system, almost always this kind of person wins.