the weirdo learning weird stuff becomes eccentric and interesting the moment they make it
the only advice there is, is most will judge you by results
success earned or unearned can change the loser into a late bloomer
The part about connections resonates, increasingly it feels like everything is facets of a whole rather than completely disparate subjects. I feel there is something to be gained from being able to view things in that way.
You will lose your vaunted place as “successful” if your great results were done through inequity
What's an example of that?
Am trying to picture what you're meaning, and it's not clear (to me).
Looks like people are really triggered by the idea of equity
I don't personally know much about the guy, but wasn't his problem the drugging of people and then taking advantage of them?
If that's correct, then that doesn't seem like a behaviour pattern that contributed to his success somehow. (?)
For example the Catholic Church and everyone associated with it is complicit and benefits from child sex abuse.
Sex abuse benefits priests, and the staff and congregation support the priests. So the existence of the Catholic church, so long as they are passively or ignorantly complicit in victimizing congregants is inequitable and therefore everything that they do inherits the complicity
Same with Cosby, he built a structure of abuse that allowed him to continue his rise to fame. Anything he did concurrently should be rightly torched and destroyed as it was misappropriated - the viewers etc did not know about that and would not have supported it had they known it
That doesn't really seem to make sense. Wasn't he just an actor? The abuse stuff seems incidental (or enabled) by that.
This is one of those cases where it maps directly one to one because personality was the marketing factor, much like with other name brand celebrities. If the benefits that you have received monetarily are a function of a personality portrayal and expectation of behavioral coherence from the audience then this is misappropriated value.
The only argument you can make is one that is cynical, and assumes that we shouldn’t trust anybody for anything ever, and therefore all externalities have been priced into the exchange between the consumer and the producer.
Ahhh. That makes more sense then. Now I see where you're coming from. :)