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Uh, pretty much every job I've worked at has been like that. There's a surprisingly common psychological fallacy that, if someone loses something another person
by thumbuddy 3y ago
Uh, pretty much every job I've worked at has been like that. There's a surprisingly common psychological fallacy that, if someone loses something another person gains something. It's an incredibly common fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking. Of course there have been a few decent people along the way but I'd say the majority of people would walk past someone dying on a side walk. Millions of stories like that over the past few years...
- mdp2021 3y agoI can tell you that there exist environments which are not cut-throat and that are cooperative. Rational individuals understand immediately that cooperation gives more return than its opposite. If you show to be an asset, you are everybody's asset. Sure, there is an epidemic of irrationality - but it did not hit every environment, and there exist cultures which had that idea of cooperation permeated societally. (Especially as the whole point of "society" is cooperation.)
- thumbuddy 3y agoI appreciate what you're saying, but honestly, my experience is that zerosum thinking is the norm not the outlier, and honestly I've seen more than two handfuls of people's lives get fucked up because of it over the past say 2-3 years.