Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct

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• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, yea, that’s how the economy is kinda designed.

  In the employee-employer relationship, the better you are as an employer at manipulating others into working for you while you retain ownership of the revenue, paying employees out percentage of what they generated as a wage while keeping the excess value as profit, is how you make a successful business.

  The business-consumer relationship boils down to a transaction where you want to be the one who has the advantage on the transaction. Sellers want to sell their products for more than they’re worth while the consumers want to buy those products at a discount of their perceived value. The seller’s entire job is to manipulate the consumer into perceiving more value in their products than the base material value of the product to generate a revenue that exceeds the cost of its production to generate profit. That’s like the basis of advertising and marketing.

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• datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I live my life to spite these people :)

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• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lying and manipulating people won’t get you anywhere further in this world. Having more money than someone or a better position in a company doesn’t actually mean shit.

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• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Really depends on where you are. These people won’t get as far in stable communities where people know and talk to each other. If you are doing these things habitually as a way to get ahead, eventually everyone will figure out what is going on and will, at the very least, exclude you from the group.

  This pattern is the case with most people who are especially dickish or unpleasant in one way or another. Sure, a very small number of them gain power and influence in the world at large. But most of them live shitty lives. They have few friends, and the friends they do have are shitty like them. They have no money, because they have trouble getting and keeping jobs - even low paying ones. When they manage to find romantic partners, the relationships tend to be tumultuous, since the only people they can attract are just as shitty as they are.

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• Quarkman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s almost always been this case since the beginning of mankind. Being good does more harm than being bad.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe, but not in the next one.

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  • SomeSphinx@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is no “Next one” We get one life on this planet.

    Personally, I’d rather spend it in the company of good people and do good things.

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree entirely with your second sentence!

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• Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That depends on how shallow you want your life to be.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Especially in today’s sociopolitical climate

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  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Especially in today’s sociopoliticalathic climate

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• aoidenpa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exactly and I love it.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unless you’re mediocre at it and have adhd and then it’s just easier to always tell the truth so you don’t have to forget about something.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  While feeling numb and miserable

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• Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Absolutely. Shouldn’t be where I am, but I feel like the world is full of gullible people.

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• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if that’s what matters to you, then sure, go ahead

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or goodness is its own reward?

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