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Sell your soul. You have to be capable of looking at people and erasing their humanity/removing your empathy.
by thot_experiment 3y ago
Sell your soul. You have to be capable of looking at people and erasing their humanity/removing your empathy.
- _jal 3y agoNecessary but not sufficient. Also, don't confuse empathy and sympathy - you need to extinguish the latter, but the former is incredibly important to your ability to play suckers.
- thot_experiment 3y agoI think you might have them backwards? Empathy is the one where you viscerally feel the other person, sympathy is where you can simulate what they're feeling but without that deeper connection, or at least that's how I was taught it.
- matchbok 3y agoHow dare those people build a business and create jobs! They must have no humanity. Geez.
- aaomidi 3y agoMost execs aren't founders
- thot_experiment 3y agoThese are just some of the lies that anyone in a position to make money exploiting people tells themselves, talk to any drug dealer, you'll get similar answers. We all do it to some extent though, the developer creating a heinous subscription cancel flow, the designer making bail bonds ads. You build walls and look the other way. Every one of these actions forces you to give up some of your empathy for the individuals you exploit, the scale at which most execs operate is just mind boggling in comparison.