No. I just think they are stupid assholes who didn’t get punched in the face by their peers or slapped by their parents to correct shitty behavior. They probably had it encouraged.
No, because it’s not a competition. There is more than enough to go around, except for the people at the top rationing it out and keeping 99.999999% of it for themselves. That’s why it’s a hard world.
Being selfish is not the solution, emulating the people who are being successful by being selfish is not the answer. Stop fighting over the crumbs the successful leave for us after they’ve eaten all the pie and thinking you will eventually collect a whole pie if you are just selfish enough. It’s a myth, it’s not realistic. They didn’t put their pies together out of crumbs. They baked it in the oven they made us build for them.
Don’t fight against your fellow crumb-gatherers. We live in one of the wealthiest and most prosperous times that humanity has ever existed in. We simply need to start acting like it. If austerity were actually necessary, we certainly wouldn’t be able to afford having billionaires and trillionaires either. It’s a lie, and people are getting insanely rich because people keep believing it.
They are convinced it is a competition though. And you can’t convince them otherwise. Because their mindset is absolute, you are either hustling or your a loser. And they will just call you a loser if you don’t agree with their hustling mindset.
That’s fine, they can call me a loser if they want, either they will try to compete and fail and end up in the same place as the rest of us losers, or they will succeed and someday I will eat them along with all the other rich. When we all start to get hungry enough it’s going to get real interesting, I think.
No.
People have to pretend they’re ignorant and happy to compete.
I’m old so I’m trying to piece this together. I believe main character vibe means someone has to have to behave like their problems are THE problems of “the story”. And by doing that, they are more successful at competing? Competing at what? Like getting more money?
Idk man, there a million ways to skin a cat. You have to feed yourself and whoever you are responsible for, so you do need to compete in “the marketplace” or whatever. I guess if you’re an influencer, it probably helps to portray “main character” energy. It feeds the illusion that your opinions should matter and therefore your product recommendations matter. But I think for most average people, hustling and birth luck are what help them succeed.
I don’t think it would help at all. I think it makes people dislike you or at best is slightly irritating. Some people tune it up among certain people and down when around friends. They get away with it more.
We wear many masks throughout our lives. To badly quote someone smarter than me…“All the world is a stage and we must all play our parts”.
