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0 pointskrageon4y ago0 comments

What is there to give arguments for? Either you've worked in a few companies and you have friends that have also done so (in which case it'd seem obvious), or you're part of a class that doesn't work (or you are a C-level employee yourself). In the latter cases, nothing I say will convince you. In the former case, we have enough shared environmental background that you understand what I'm saying already.

Given those facts, I didn't see why a further paragraph of background would be valuable: My point would not land with more people regardless of whether or not I wrote that paragraph.

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BeetleB4y ago

Your comment can be summed up as:

"Either you share my twisted view of the world or you don't. I choose not to believe that others can objectively evaluate evidence, and there's the risk that they may not come to the same conclusion that I did."

sakarisson4y ago

Your point states that all C-level employees are sociopaths. Logically, if I can provide you with a single example of a non-sociopath C-level employee, your point would be invalid. Of course I don't believe that you are literally saying that every single C-level employee in the entire world is a sociopath, but merely that the majority or a significant portion are.

> My point would not land with more people regardless of whether or not I wrote that paragraph.

It would, if you could provide me with some data that supports your generalization. If it was true, surely there would be some research backing it up.

rightbyte4y ago

I think there might be a big sample bias. People on your own level or the level above but not your boss, can't "mess with you" in the way a C-level can. I.e. bad people don't stand out as well.

A clear example would be cops and cashiers at Walmart. The later can hardly mess with you at all, even if he would be a bad person.

On the other hand security guards at night clubs and cops have about the same opportunity to mess with me, and I can easily say the guards on average are worse people.

yebyen4y ago

I think it's somewhere in here, this novella or whatever it is called The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

Of course that isn't actual data, but the analysis explores the idea that only sociopaths make it to the top in a great deal more depth, if what you're looking for is depth of background and understanding of where this idea comes from, rather than why this specific person who you responded to believes it to be true.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

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