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the truth about assholes


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2012 Nov 25, 10:08am   1,771 views  4 comments

by coriacci1   ➕follow (2)   💰tip   ignore  

http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2019725076_br25assholes.html

But I grew up in New York City, the world capital of assholes. In terms of real-world experience, I have a double Ph.D., with a minor in BS. I get it. The folks at Doubleday, an otherwise reputable publishing company, decided to go with the Harvard guy. And to his credit, James does an admirable job defining the category:

A person "who systematically allows himself to enjoy special advantages in interpersonal relations out of an entrenched sense of enlightenment that immunizes him against the complaints of other people."

They are everywhere. They cut into lines, because their time is more valuable than yours. They send and receive texts and emails in darkened theaters, because that is more important than your enjoyment. They buy Hummers in the midst of an oil crisis because they can. And they fire employees to meet earnings-per-share requirements for their bonuses.

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1   mell   2012 Nov 25, 10:22am  

"But worse is the area James calls asshole capitalism. It is what created the economic bind we're in. A bank sold mortgage packages to investors at the same time it was betting the mortgages would fail. Federal prosecutors just sued another bank for selling the government $1 billion in faulty mortgages."

Here's the problem, nobody minds being called an asshole anymore. Often rightfully so because the definition depends on people's definition of morals which can widely vary. Instead of bitching about assholes they should have applied the rule of law and put the assholes peddling securities to investors as "safe and great opportunities" while betting against them into JAIL and dissolved their insolvent companies in bankruptcy court. Anybody who does not advocate and fight for applying the rule of law (in this case for crystal-clear fraud) is part of the problem and as guilty as the people they call assholes - which does nothing to help the issue.

2   ttsmyf   2012 Nov 25, 10:34am  

What do you call the SYSTEM that keeps this out of sight?
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038
The coming and going of irrationality dominates, and is unspoken!
"The public be suckered" is both the track record, AND keeping it out of sight

3   zzyzzx   2012 Nov 26, 12:04am  

When I saw the thread title, I was expecting this thread to be about real estate agents.

4   coriacci1   2012 Nov 26, 12:45am  

realturds, banksters, brokers are all included in the group. of course.

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