Comment by 1arity | Hacker News Reader

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People will hate.

If their opinion was worth 1 fucking dollar -- then Amazon wouldn't be.

Then Bezos wouldn't be.

People vote with their aspirations and their payments every fucking day.

Who cares what some jaded loser writers put towards their credo of anti-corporate injustice fabrication?

It just perpetuates their deluded worldview and makes it easier for them to deal with the suffering they endured from their own choices that left them without a cent. And they're jealous, and they go to invent an evil, to pretend they're right, to make them feel better, about not having any proof of how "right" they feel they are.

The one's who are "right" -- they have the money. Because they understood what reality is.

It's simple.

[ Hello to everyone -- I will take your hate all day and make it awesome. I know there's a lot of delusion triggered by this article, especially when someone pushes back against the compelling fake view that a hugely successful company is "evil" -- bring it, I am here to help you see clearly. Please tho, keep it here, abusive emails will be published. ]

> The one's who are "right" -- they have the money. Because they understood what reality is.

Your entire post is a pretty damning conviction of yourself. I feel sorry for you.

If I tar myself with the same brush -- what of it ? If what I say is correct, even if I express the same dysfunctional pattern, what of it? The fact that I may or may not see it in myself doesn't affect my ability to see it in other people.

I don't require your pity, I accept it tho, if that's what you want to give. It just makes you feel better. Feeling sorry for someone is a way to make yourself feel better than them, revealing your own insecurity.

I'm always looking to learn and for opportunities to improve. Could what I describe of others be something I do ? Of course.

At least I have the courage to say it, perhaps knowing that I exhibit it still. Willing to learn. I am. Are you?

Start where you are. Or you'll never get where you want to be.

Struggling against blaming others, instead of taking responsibility, struggling against doing, instead of hating, is something anyone can encounter. The point is, to see you have a choice, and choose something that works.

If you want to pretend you're already above that, and look down on me, the very need to look down on me shows me you aren't. If you were past this, and I wasn't, you'd help me with it. That's what you do when you've been through something.

When you haven't been through it, you can be afraid of it, and you accuse others of it to deny it of yourself. Because you haven't yet owned up to dealing with it yet.

That's the mechanism. That's what going on here.

So maybe your statement was just a damning accusation of you.

If you're gonna get personal you got to be prepared for how that reflects on you.

I think you might be missing the point here. There are lots of reports, from many different sources, that Amazon has an aggressive high-pressure work culture. It's not really a secret, and the existence of this approach is pretty legendary. It's not like this is the first report of it.

The point, depends, on where you are standing. And unless you are me, you're standing somewhere slightly different. Skepticism. So unsatisfying...like a cop out. Far better to barge ahead pretending that your POV is the one true way. So satisfying. The satisfaction of that pay off indicates that it must be adaptive -- pretending you're right and seeming to win arguments must lead to more sex ( to produce babies that also pretend they are right ). Regardless of whether your points have any actual merit or not, the point is to seem as if they do. So, don't you see, we are all dancing to the beat of our genes, clothed in the mere colours of reason? History is written by the victors, in no case is that truer than evolution. I believe it works to be more than your genes. There is a truth that exists outside of the theatrics of winning debates. Yet perhaps such a truth is out of reach of and irrelevant to, mere humans ? I choose to believe it is not. Haha.

What the fuck does this even mean.

It means people invent invectives to satisfy their own deluded psychologies, independent of any merits of what they say. They fabricate narratives that make it easier for them to live with themselves, and disown responsibility, in favour of incorrectly trying to blame someone else.

Frequently the target of their blame is someone ( or something ) successful, since this has the most pay off for them. It has the most pay off for them because the large difference in success between themselves and their target gives them the most serious dissatisfaction, which they seek to correct, not by taking actions which may improve their situation, but by believing delusions which may diminish the difference that so vexes them.

So the hater tries to pretend that the successful is "wrong", and this makes them feel doubly right, in that they are "better" than the one who is objectively better than they ( by being "right" and the other "wrong" ), and, further than that, that even the objective measure of success is itself somehow flawed, because they purport it to be founded on a great injustice which they fabricate for the very purpose of making themselves feel that much less inadequate in comparison.

It's a highly compelling, and widespread addictive delusion, because it's like a drug. People get the feeling of success and achievement without actually doing anything to achieve that. They get the neurotransmitter dump, simply by fabricating for themselves a delusion ( their hate filled invective ) in which the successful is not, and they are right.

The tricky part is separating all this from what is actually true. Separating the narrative, from the what is.

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