Money doesn’t corrupt people. Corrupt people are just better at getting money.
LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life
Submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not true. Money often does corrupt people, because money is very often the means to power, and power definitely corrupts most people over time.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 days ago
This got me thinking. What about people who get rich by luck, winning a lottery or something?
They aren’t corrupt, but they’ll surely turn into assholes anyway, when they justify their luck to themselves and start doing asshole actions to guard their precious money. It’s the same thing with inheritance or getting lucky in business. They’ll talk about “self-made” success, even if they just bought a lottery ticket.
In my opinion, money does corrupt people. It’s just through ordinary greed. Litteral corruption or cheating isn’t even necessary to see this effect that money has.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lottery players tend to have a specific personality type. Desperate or gambling addicts or generally bad with money. Regardless, winning a lottery is not a sustaining income plan. It’s fast easy money and the most responsible thing to do with it is pay off debts or other necessities. Not giving your second cousin that you haven’t seen the the family reunion 10 years ago a handout to get their business going isn’t really an asshole move.
People who seemingly became asshole when they got rich were probably just asshole all along. You can sometimes see that attribute poking out from under someone’s mask when they aren’t careful. Ever native how if you criticize a rich person’s attitude, someone will chime in that they’re successful, so it’s ok?
There are some rich people who either luck into money and remain humble and quite. Those people are more or less invisible in the news cycle. If you find one or two in your area and you do charity work, you can sometimes approach them for donations.
There are also those who are successful small business owners and all of them that I’ve dealt with have some degree of asshole behavior, but that comes with the territory. If you let yourself be a pushover will bills or late deliveries, you lose. If they can compartmentalize, they’re fine, but I know some who can’t turn it off. You always feel like you’re walking on eggshells around them.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You don’t need to do asshole actions to guard your money.
Someone with boundaries isn’t consequently an asshole.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Sadly true, also the reason that most c-levels are also assholes. They want power and money and being an asshole is damn near a requirement to do so.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sorry, I don’t know how. My brain has so many memories of how being an asshole got me majorly fucked it’s super apparent I’m not good at it. Better just be really kidney to people because I want to live in a world where we are kind to each other.
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well it is a shitpost, you shouldn’t take it 100% literal, but there’s a time and place to be an asshole. Most of the time it’s not, but when the time does come it can mean a whole lot.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t get me wrong, you can check my post history, I know how to be an asshole.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s easier to be kind and let things go that don’t work out than it is to be an asshole with sociopathic tendencies that everyone remembers.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Either the situation is worth the sacrifice or it isn’t. If you feel like you’re getting the short end of the stick, try taking into account the spiritual benefits of doing the right thing.
If that doesn’t tip the balance into feeling like you made the right choice, you probably made the wrong choice.
When one is actually clear about one’s values, and their relative position in one’s personal hierarchy, it relieves an enormous amount of existential stress.
Gork@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Go full on New York City on them.
“Eat my ass, fuckwad!”
RampageDon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s just normal pleasantries exchanged in passing.
Pothetato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And may you eat mine as well, my good dickhead!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 day ago
If this kind of thing is bothering you regularly, then you probably need to update your definition of “asshole”.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I can give you the exact opposite example.
Meassure your assholeness people.
Venator@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Also the more often you’re an asshole, the less likely you’ll have friends available to help you get out of a sticky situation without having to resort to being an asshole. So instead of being as asshole, do people favours if they’re not assholes, and then maybe you’ll have someone you can call on who’ll cold through for you too if the need arises.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 days ago
lI can hardly count the number of times I was overseen, forgotten, passed, etc all because I was too friendly and non-intrusive. This meme is very true.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, and unfortunately that’s why the world is the way it is. If empathy, creativity and humility were the values that would take us forward in society, everyone would be better off. But that’s a utopia that will never happen, I’m afraid. Because there will always be people who take advantage of the good nature of others to gain an advantage for themselves. That seems to be human nature - and will also be the downfall of humanity, I think. The tyranny of selfishness, built on the shoulders of good people and only made possible by their ruthless exploitation.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 days ago
It will only never happen because people believe it will never happen