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people doing this ruin the market for everyone else they are in. i believe this ultimately hurts them, too. once people start figuring out that public image ma
by MarkPNeyer 13y ago
people doing this ruin the market for everyone else they are in. i believe this ultimately hurts them, too.
once people start figuring out that public image matters more than anything else, and that the public likes helpful people more than they like assholes, i think this will change.
- csallen 13y agoUnfortunately, people don't have the time or the energy to investigate the minor behavioral details of every company they buy from. Thus, even if you are a tremendous asshole, it's not overly difficult to conceal this from the public while you go about your business of crushing competitors.
- rhizome 13y agoonce people start figuring out that public image matters more than anything else, and that the public likes helpful people more than they like assholes, i think this will change. From Dick Cheney, to Maury Povich, to apparently every university business program, to popular sports, the entire Western cultural environment has been oriented around treating personal endeavors as zero-sum games. There is a thing called winning, only one person/group can win, and it better not be the other guy who gets it. For generations, at least since the Gilded Age, cooperation and commmunitarianism has been subsumed under individual success. Where do you see people figuring out that things should (or even could) change from this entrenched state of affairs? Are you saying we need a cultural revolution? Because that wasn't very fun for the little guy the last few times it occurred. UPDATE: Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354012