I am going to get lynched for this act of heresy.
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I am certain to be lynched, drawn and quartered, defenestrated and castrated for recommending an article by George Moonbat in the "think of the children" Guardian 
. I thought it would at the very least provoke a lively debate in any case. I find some of his points he agree with Nassim Taleb, about good fortune playing a much more important part role in success than ability.
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. I thought it would at the very least provoke a lively debate in any case. I find some of his points he agree with Nassim Taleb, about good fortune playing a much more important part role in success than ability.Click on here to be taken to the dark side
He's right. We city folk are nasty. In my last psych evaluation, I was told that I was borderline sociopathic. Which was something of a surprise, let me tell you, as I have always prided myself on being nice to other people where possible.
Don't believe everything you read. We'd all like to believe that successful/motivated people are all amoral psychopaths - but that gross generalisation that Monbiot seems to be making is just that: a gross generalisation.
Do I think that wealth is too concentrated in the hands of a few? Absolutely. Do I have a solution? Not really. Am I going to pointlessly and jealously blams all corporations/private enterprise for the ills of the world? No - because I'm not Monbiot, with his blinkered view of the world, good and evil. Corporations are like anything else - there are good people in them, and bad people - and the latter aren't always the folk running things, no matter what these modish "psych tests" may tell you.
*leaves to kill a hooker and steal money from poor people*
Don't believe everything you read. We'd all like to believe that successful/motivated people are all amoral psychopaths - but that gross generalisation that Monbiot seems to be making is just that: a gross generalisation.
Do I think that wealth is too concentrated in the hands of a few? Absolutely. Do I have a solution? Not really. Am I going to pointlessly and jealously blams all corporations/private enterprise for the ills of the world? No - because I'm not Monbiot, with his blinkered view of the world, good and evil. Corporations are like anything else - there are good people in them, and bad people - and the latter aren't always the folk running things, no matter what these modish "psych tests" may tell you.
*leaves to kill a hooker and steal money from poor people*
Harry Flashman said:
He's right. We city folk are nasty. In my last psych evaluation, I was told that I was borderline sociopathic. Which was something of a surprise, let me tell you, as I have always prided myself on being nice to other people where possible.
Don't believe :Deverything you read. We'd all like to believe that successful/motivated people are all amoral psychopaths - but that gross generalisation that Monbiot seems to be making is just that: a gross generalisation.
Do I think that wealth is too concentrated in the hands of a few? Absolutely. Do I have a solution? Not really. Am I going to pointlessly and jealously blams all corporations/private enterprise for the ills of the world? No - because I'm not Monbiot, with his blinkered view of the world, good and evil. Corporations are like anything else - there are good people in them, and bad people - and the latter aren't always the folk running things, no matter what these modish "psych tests" may tell you.
*leaves to kill a hooker and steal money from poor people*
I must agree that the defining characteristics of a psychopath would make it the perfect psychological profile for climbing the corporate ladder or political greasy pole, I also agree with his point about luck being more important than talent, something that Taleb also strongly points out.Don't believe :Deverything you read. We'd all like to believe that successful/motivated people are all amoral psychopaths - but that gross generalisation that Monbiot seems to be making is just that: a gross generalisation.
Do I think that wealth is too concentrated in the hands of a few? Absolutely. Do I have a solution? Not really. Am I going to pointlessly and jealously blams all corporations/private enterprise for the ills of the world? No - because I'm not Monbiot, with his blinkered view of the world, good and evil. Corporations are like anything else - there are good people in them, and bad people - and the latter aren't always the folk running things, no matter what these modish "psych tests" may tell you.
*leaves to kill a hooker and steal money from poor people*
"leaves to kill a hooker and steal money from poor people" should be Goldman corporate motto or the motto for long distance truck drivers ?
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