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Yes, if I buy a piece of software for my business for $100, I expect it to save me at least $100, or I shouldn't have bought that software. But I am not a piece
by jareklupinski 4y ago
Yes, if I buy a piece of software for my business for $100, I expect it to save me at least $100, or I shouldn't have bought that software. But I am not a piece of software... While I may employ another person for a set price and expect a reduction in the cost of doing business, or even a return, the fact remains, all that differentiates me from the other person is the luck that I was born in my shoes, not theirs.
A good cultural shift may be to re-align assumptions that personal advantages are due to factors we individually control, and think hard about how we would prefer the other party acted were the tables turned.
An ocean full of yachts is pretty worthless if no one offers them a port.
- RestlessMind 4y ago> all that differentiates me from the other person is the luck that I was born in my shoes, not theirs. You don't think hard work and personal initiative matters?
- jareklupinski 4y agomaybe the tricky part is that hard work and initiative mean different things to different people for me, it's a bit hyperbolic, but just in case I wake up in someone else's body tomorrow, my hard work and personal initiative will mean that at least whoever got my body has a decent shot at life. hope I landed in someone who felt likewise a roundabout way of saying "if we all believed that we would wake up in a different body tomorrow, I bet we would all be a lot nicer to each other", but maybe more realistically, I suppose a mutual feeling like that would at least manifest into people being more pleasant overall, even if it is incredibly unlikely that you'll actually physically switch bodies
- RestlessMind 4y agololwut? Was this comment written by ChatGPT?