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The viper mentality is ultimately parasitic and their benefit will drop off once they've eroded the community they prey upon. A viper in a pit of vipers is just
by kombookcha 3y ago
The viper mentality is ultimately parasitic and their benefit will drop off once they've eroded the community they prey upon. A viper in a pit of vipers is just another schmuck.
Choosing to be suboptimal in the short term for yourself, for the long term benefit of everyone, is how you grow.
- piltdownman 3y agoDelivered Benefit != Profit How many of the Top 20 Global Rich List got there through altruism and CSR? We have dozens of touch-points in Human Culture to aptly demonstrate this, ranging classically from 'The Tragedy of the Commons' to that sterotypical 80s mindset of 'Nice Guys Finish Last'. From Manufacturing/Sweatshops and post-colonial era exploitation of the 3rd world, to a Newt Gingrich led era of destructive political spindoctory in the 1st World. To be slightly on the nose about it, we're now living in a US-Led 'Too Big to Fail' era of Power and Financial attainment, typified by an incredibly strong lobbying class, and a lax and de-incentivised regulatory class. The two are then weaponised to nefarious ends by power brokers using disingenuous polemic to conflate them to the point of making the hoi polloi into a pastiche of turkeys voting for Christmas.