I had to cut out some of those people from my life, their viewpoint is absurd, spiteful and logically/morally inconsistent. It was like they believed in anything, everything, and nothing, all at the same time.
I noted they had like a reverse empathy problem. One in particular, he idolized Elon Musk, and talked about how Billionaires have it so tough, the media and people are overly critical of them, and they rose to the top perfectly moral and fair. I point out to him, one might field that argument for a very financially successful slave owner perhaps 160 years ago or so, his financial success being from the coerced work of others.
I’d try to point out, suppose I poison a town…I’d go to jail right? So if that standard is good for me, shouldn’t that standard also be equally applied to the CEO of Norfolk Southern, or BP, or Union Carbide/Bhopal India?
If they fuck up, #’s on a ledger goes down. Meanwhile, laborers consistently risk homelessness and starvation, to me between the two, the labor side of thing is existential risk vs bad business dealings, you can’t lecture me on risk, if business CEO people virtually never wind up in homeless shelters from bad business dealings.
Anyways, reverse empathy. I don’t like those people, I don’t let them invade my inner circle. They’ll be the dumbest person in a room while professing that they’re the smartest. They’re often smug, arrogant, spiteful people that, as reductive as it sounds, I don’t even entertain they truly have valid views or opinions on things.
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I had to cut out some of those people from my life, their viewpoint is absurd, spiteful and logically/morally inconsistent. It was like they believed in anything, everything, and nothing, all at the same time.
I noted they had like a reverse empathy problem. One in particular, he idolized Elon Musk, and talked about how Billionaires have it so tough, the media and people are overly critical of them, and they rose to the top perfectly moral and fair. I point out to him, one might field that argument for a very financially successful slave owner perhaps 160 years ago or so, his financial success being from the coerced work of others.
I’d try to point out, suppose I poison a town…I’d go to jail right? So if that standard is good for me, shouldn’t that standard also be equally applied to the CEO of Norfolk Southern, or BP, or Union Carbide/Bhopal India?
If they fuck up, #’s on a ledger goes down. Meanwhile, laborers consistently risk homelessness and starvation, to me between the two, the labor side of thing is existential risk vs bad business dealings, you can’t lecture me on risk, if business CEO people virtually never wind up in homeless shelters from bad business dealings.
Anyways, reverse empathy. I don’t like those people, I don’t let them invade my inner circle. They’ll be the dumbest person in a room while professing that they’re the smartest. They’re often smug, arrogant, spiteful people that, as reductive as it sounds, I don’t even entertain they truly have valid views or opinions on things.