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Empirical evidence that nice people don't always finish last:
Think your boss is a jerk? Wonder why the management of your organization consists of sociopaths? Some academic researchers suspect you're not alone, and they start their new paper with the statement, "We suffer no shortage of jerks in power." And they go on to ask the obvious question raised by this fact: "Does being a jerk help people attain power?"
To find out, the researchers set up a very long-term experiment. After administering personality surveys to undergrad and MBA students, they waited over a decade to follow up and find out which personality types had accrued power in the world of employment. The results suggest that jerks don't necessarily get ahead at work; instead, some of the consequences of being unpleasant offset the benefits that it might otherwise provide.
[...] The good news here is that, as the researchers put it, "individuals who were more selfish, combative, and deceitful did not, subsequently, attain higher power." So, nice people do not necessarily finish last. But, at the same time, nobody seems to be held back by displaying that list of behaviors on the job.
Journal Reference:
Cameron Anderson, Daron L. Sharps, Christopher J. Soto, et al. People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work [$], Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005088117)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 02 2020, @08:29PM (4 children)
That's no rationalization. At base, somewhere, even if they can't find the words, that *is* "satisfaction of the moral agent."
I challenge you to find me one example of something that isn't. And note, it can satisfy a moral agent to follow the light, as it does for me. You have no such light however; your words and deeds prove your inner darkness. If you were truly a possessor of the light you would not hold the political and religious views you do.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:08PM (1 child)
Jesus said to help the poor, turn the other cheek, forgiveness for those who have done wrong.
Basically the complete opposite of Republican ideology.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday September 04 2020, @10:51AM
Jesus had quite a clear hierarchy of values.
Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.
6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday September 04 2020, @10:27AM (1 child)
LOL, exactly as predicted. You give coins to the nigger standing out the mall, fully knowing that it is 99% a racket, and that any money given is 99% accelerating your own demise. Why do you do it? now make it 100%.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 07 2020, @12:14AM
Wow, you're an even worse Christian than I thought, and I already thought you were a pretty goddamn (heh) terrible one.
What happened to Jesus' kingdom being not of this world, huh? What happened to "fear not him who can destroy the body alone" etc etc? You don't even take your own God seriously. He's gonna chuck you headfirst into Hell according to your own beliefs.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...