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Ok, I don't necessarily disagree, but it is thus living your values, which at the very least increases ones self confidence and self perception of status. Whet
by komali2 4mo ago
Ok, I don't necessarily disagree, but it is thus living your values, which at the very least increases ones self confidence and self perception of status.
Whether one thinks that improves one's status in the eyes of others imo depends on one's cynicism. "Whatever, I'm living my values, they just don't get it. Maybe others will one day."
That's how I see it for myself anyway, if I'm being honest. But in the end I don't think there's any better path to happiness and fulfillment than living my values.
- harimau777 4mo agoSure, but happiness and fulfillment isn't status. Not because there's anything wrong with them but because that's not what "status" means.
- whimsicalism 4mo agofeeling better because your job fits better in your moral framework that you get from society is a status-mediated effect and i feel you can usually find social scaffolding under things that are articulated as purely intrinsic.
- lux-lux-lux 4mo agoIf words don’t mean what they mean, absolutely