As usual with these sorts of articles, should be prefaced with “A single study claims…”
Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
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Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand, why is it ironic?
Because this person has made an irrevocable judgement on the way people performed because of their judgement based on how another person performed. For the very thing he was criticising them about: judging based on appearance of the situation the reality of it, he has done the same to them, but even worse, with explicit malice! I can't really imagine how someone could think they are the good guy in this situation
Finding distaste in other peoples sayings is not malice.
EDIT: I would agree with the post you were referring to, if someone were to judge me based on my boasting I'd rather not work with them because I'd have to put much effort into working around them misjudging me.
Please don't judge me on my absence of boasting.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#73People wearing flashy/status clothes are very cooperative. They are willing to walk around with logo's, advertising brands. While a sandwich man gets paid for such a job, the people wearing flashy/status clothes pay lots of money to do this kind of work.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand, why is it ironic?
Because this person has made an irrevocable judgement on the way people performed because of their judgement based on how another person performed. For the very thing he was criticising them about: judging based on appearance of the situation the reality of it, he has done the same to them, but even worse, with explicit malice! I can't really imagine how someone could think they are the good guy in this situation
Eh, I'm not going to expend energy trying to have this discussion. I'll leave it at this - I think your comment is very poorly reasoned.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except for sneakers, I can't think of a single category of clothing where it is common to have visible logos?
What? All of those branded T-shirts, hoodies/jumpers, blue jeans that have logos embroidered, printed, stitched on to them doesn't ring a bell? All of the sports people do it. Nike swoosh. Adidas symbol. Kappa's posed back-to-back figures, etc. Abecrombie & Fitch's giant A&F on every thing. Ball caps with logos. None of this sounds vaguely familiar?
It actually took me a minute to figure out what OP meant. I think it depends a lot on where you shop. And even somewhere like Wal-Mart, there's plenty of clothing available that doesn't have prominent branding and isn't "legible" clothing. I don't think finding men's clothing without branding is at all difficult, and it's actually easier the higher end you go.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because this person has made an irrevocable judgement on the way people performed because of their judgement based on how another person performed. For the very thing he was criticising them about: judging based on appearance of the situation the reality of it, he has done the same to them, but even worse, with explicit malice! I can't really imagine how someone could think they are the good guy in this situation
Finding distaste in other peoples sayings is not malice. EDIT: I would agree with the post you were referring to, if someone were to judge me based on my boasting I'd rather not work with them because I'd have to put much effort into working around them misjudging me. Please don't judge me on my absence of boasting.
Who said it was? I would be interested in how you parsed that from my comment
EDIT: Oh you added a bunch of extra stuff now, please don't ninja edit like that
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#77I was having this talk the other day: I hate "high end" logo clothes and don't want to compete with people that showcase their logo clothes. The average clothing store is decent enough for me. I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them. Just plain material and colors.
I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them. Uniqlo
I've worn a 'uniform' based around Uniqlo's long sleeved tees for about 15 years now and I've noticed the quality drop off remarkably over the past few years.
A shirt will barely last a few months now, whilst I still occasionally wear a [much be-holed] first generation from way back when and it's kept its size, shape and still feels soft. New ones shrink and feel crunchy after a few washes. Oh, and they're about twice the price. Inflation, I guess.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#78If a company wants me to advertise their brand by wearing their logo, they can come negotiate a contract with me. Why else would I want to be a walking billboard? I assume people who wear such things are 1: terribly insecure, and B: terrible negotiators.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
#79The article's title is "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative", and the title here on HN is absolutely wrong. I like wearing flashy clothes myself, and I would even say it has proven advantageous to cooperation in my line of work, so I was curious about this article. However, nowhere is it stated that flashy clothes make people less likely to cooperate with you. They say wearing clothes…
The HN title is right, it's the article's title which is at odds with its contents.
Yeah - my apologies. Should have linked to the underlying paper, which is what I based the title on.
Re: Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
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I live in South Florida, a little bit above Miami, and work out of this little co-working space. A couple weeks ago, a new member joined, and after talking with him a bit, I learned that he had worked on the founding team for some very famous technology (don't want to name it publicly). So pretty impressive, but the guy is down to earth and humble about it, which I really respected. Some other people in the space (no…
I think the key to being happy as an introvert is not depending on the approval and adoration of others for your accomplishments. If you do, you're going to be bitter and toxic over not getting it when you feel you should.
For sure. I bet the guy wouldn't care if he knew they were dismissing him behind his back. But still, it made me angry because there's this whole "networking" culture down here, and it's all very superfluous and scammy.