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#2At his best. (And I don't mean business or politics per se but as a philosophical take to life.)
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#3Sadly, even if accurate, the exceptions (i.e. mean people who get power) can have an outsized impact because they don't respect norms and boundaries that prevent the worst abuses.
Also some strategies I'd call "mean" can be very effective: predatory pricing, monopolization, regulatory capture, disregarding externalities, lying, fraud, etc.
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#4This claim seems true largely because we cherry pick examples and because this is how we feel the world ought to work. Announcing this belief is just a way of signalling prosocial stance, a nostalgic mid-10s catechism to us all just getting along.
Its the 2020s and mean is doing numbers.
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#5Sadly, even if accurate, the exceptions (i.e. mean people who get power) can have an outsized impact because they don't respect norms and boundaries that prevent the worst abuses. Also some strategies I'd call "mean" can be very effective: predatory pricing, monopolization, regulatory capture, disregarding externalities, lying, fraud, etc.
Thank you. I agree. Paul's general insight is probably true on an 80/20 split, but those who are sociopathic enough can and do wield power without any care for the destruction or disruption they cause. They can even get off on it. See: Trump, Sam Altman, etc.
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#6Yet sociopaths are successful and run this industry.
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#7This claim seems true largely because we cherry pick examples and because this is how we feel the world ought to work. Announcing this belief is just a way of signalling prosocial stance, a nostalgic mid-10s catechism to us all just getting along. Its the 2020s and mean is doing numbers.
Just wait. Mean reverts to the mean.
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#8Yet sociopaths are successful and run this industry.
Yeah imagine a nice Steve Jobs would Apple be the same
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#10This works great in an orderly society, where most of the really mean stuff has already been successfully disincentivized, often at great cost. Out in the jungle, it takes dozens to hundreds of years to grow a tree, but only a few minutes to cut it down.