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Not clever honest people are taken advantage of Not clever dishonest people can do ok sometimes Clever honest people can be moderately successful, but can alw
by Eddy_Viscosity2 3y ago
Not clever honest people are taken advantage of
Not clever dishonest people can do ok sometimes
Clever honest people can be moderately successful, but can always be out-maneuvered by the clever dishonest people, thereby limiting how high they can climb,
Clever dishonest people rule the world.
- glitchc 3y agoSo true. How does one become dishonest?
- saagarjha 3y agoI can tell you how.
- vundercind 3y agoCompartmentalizing by treating business as a “game” that honest people are simply playing poorly seems to be a place many start, if they want to be able to continue to see themselves as honest. Once it’s just a game, and deception is part of it… why, you’re not even behaving unethically!
- johnnyanmac 3y agoEmpathy. Remove it. Don't necessarily steal willy nilly, but see people as pawns on a board to get you to the next stage of the game. You're not concerned with doing a good job, you're concerned with learning the players; their personality, their weaknesses, the power structure, etc. Your goal is to move up the ladder and move quick. Get friendly with boss, the hold it over them. then get to the next step. maybe you need to pretend to fit in, maybe lie about qualifications. That's part of the board. Get powerful people to like you, get powerful tools and resources, and keep moving up. Many stop around middle management since you start to need more money to push further, but it's a similar game as you go farther up, you just end up fighting against more players that may or may not be cleverer than yourself (and likely much more dishonest).
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoIt seems you have given this considerable thought...
- tsegratis 3y agoI like how that is already impossible, and that in only two sentences > So true.... Become dishonest Win the second, will loose the first
- glitchc 3y agoI think that's it really. You give up a great deal. Dishonest people don't realize how much they've given up. They surround themselves with equally dishonest people, and then wonder why they can't trust anyone.
- Exoristos 3y agoA small percentage of "clever dishonest people" rule the world. Unless one hits the stratosphere quickly there will be a downfall, because time is the enemy of major dishonesty. In other words, most of the world-ruling class are dishonest, but most dishonest people (even clever ones) are not world rulers.
- woobar 3y agoAn alternative take from Venkatesh Rao managed two narrow it down just to 3 types of people in his Gervais Principle [1] [1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- strken 3y agoCompulsively dishonest people don't rule the world at all. If you can't resist stealing petty cash from the Burger King till then you'll eventually be found out and slapped down. 99% honest people rule the world because of the sneaky 1% of cases where they cheat and make it count.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>the sneaky 1% of cases where they cheat and make it count. I'd count that under "clever but dishonest". I do agree most people aren't clever, but enough are.