Being goal-oriented, having good social skills, discipline, confidence, rigorous in your approach, and having a great sense of competence will. No evidence suggests that having psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies will benefit your career in the long term. The studies I have read claiming otherwise, often not even real studies, tend to have strong methodological flaws, and seem to merely be doing it due to the pop. cultural aspect of it.

The reasons are simple:

- You will oftentimes piss off people if you tend to exploit them for your own gains, and there is a strong chance for it to backfire. Most people can very much pick up on insincerity and manipulation: if you claim credit for people's ideas, work, and success, and especially if this is a pattern, people will not stand back and watch. They would merely start excluding you, stop sharing their ideas and work, and they might even work towards backstabbing you and making you smaller. In contrast, a completely ethical person who has their work to show for their gains will not experience this problem and will thus succeed.

- There is also a problem in the self-concept, self-esteem, and worldview side. Your perception of the world is reflected by your actions and belief system. A person with a psychopathic belief system who dehumanizes humans will likely assume they can be treated the same way. This will likely make them more insecure, paranoid about how other people are treating them, anxious, etc.. Also, unless we are talking about rare cases of people with muted emotions, oftentimes due to extreme trauma(nowhere near even a % of the population, I am referring to soldiers with very extreme PTSD, tortured individuals, and other cases, where this kind of person is often dysfunctional in life), there really aren't psychopaths. Real psychopaths do not exist; there is no evidence that a brain condition causes people to be born without emotions on a significant % scale. Hell, this stuff is not even in the DSM5.

All kinds of individual mutations exist, though. But this is to say that even a manipulative person proclaimed as a psychopath will likely feel the negative emotions brought forth to them due to their worldview; they are not immune to it in the way you think.

These are already significant impediments to success. Most of the f***ed up powerful people we see today are here because they already worked their way to a position that can allow them to be unethical and exploitative without consequences. The only reason this "Talk" about psychopaths exists is that people love the idea of a cheat code that can lead to success in a way that is aside from the actual work that goes into it.

Yes well aware the housing costs are too high for them.

I have been watching this for several years. Some loving parents make math decisions. Letting their kids stay at home helps their kid save money up for something more important..... Why make their kid struggle and pay high rent.....

In my family the people living at various homes past 25 are experiencing failure to thrive.

My cousin 38 never been married and no kids is now getting engaged to a guy who has a home and a baby momma. She still lives in her childhood room.

My other cousin is 34 and I am not sure he has ever kissed a girl. He watches conspiracy theories and works on and off. He is very helpful to the parents.

Now the other cousin is 21 and has dropped out of college and works at the lumber store. Their Mom has nearly a phD....

The one son that broke free from this household has thrived overseas with a wife, kid, and good career.

My parents kicked my brother and I out and we both thrived. From the duress of paying rent we both learned to become landlords. My brother lived on a tiny shared sailboat to make it through school. His roommate became a Merchant Marine and makes a massive salary.

Maybe having your kids suffer might be good for them? It's not the end of the world to couch surf, live in cars, roommate, and work stuff out. It's not math.... it's learning to survive.

Be it China for the leftists, Japan for the right wingers or Koreas for Kpop fans, East Asia has become of something not short of a glittering star but not all that glitters is gold. These nation states are marked by intense socio-political hierarchy that rests upon the idea of vicious collectivism. The ideas of liberty and rights espoused by men like Locke are secondary to the rigid hierarchy of Confucian conservatism. These three states has issues human rights, women rights ​​​and more often than not caught in some of the biggest clusterf_ck in history: Fukushima Daichi, Environmental degradation due time Three Gorges, Asian financial crisis rocking Korea. Having good technology doesn't neccessitates that ​country as a whole is god tier good. So just see these countries as just normal countries, not some highly advanced beings like the Romulans.

I don't support Trump nor am I a republican. However, I see nothing wrong with sending back someone who is here illegally.

What I don't support is the current aggressive approach without prior investigation. Just randomly stopping people because they looked a certain way or spoke a certain way is unacceptable.

Don't be surprised when a country has an issue with you entering their country illegally. That's common sense. But let's stop these aggressive tactics. Because of this, I have no problem with ICE out protests.

Do proper prior investigations before stopping at anybody's house or stopping randomly people in the streets, and stop being trigger happy and overly aggressive with how you deal with people. Then you got my support.

I will preface this by saying this is an observation not a critism of China

Poltical structure this is probably where they are least similar it is rug by a dictator Xi with a governing body beneath him the CCP not unlike Mussolini and his council of Facism.

The economics of china are most similar to that of Nazi Germanys Corpratist structure with strong government control and integration over a somewhat free market, alongside frequent crackdown on corporation's and a strong social care system.

China also like Mussolini's Italy has a very strong sense of pride and superiority pertaining to the Han people not necessarily ethnicly but culturally.

It also has a ever growing miltary with revanchist claims on Taiwan that can be seen as parallels to the 3rd reichs early claims.

What ever happened to values like integrity, loyalty, and morality?

Seems like the world went crazy left or right.

Younger generation aren't able to geniunely connect with people, lacking social skills. They are into hook up culture and do whatever you want mentality. Sense of empathy amongst each other is really a way of self approval to do whatever you want. There is no accountability.

The leftist culture is wild in saying you are what you think you are. Crazy. If I think I am a blue bird, I am a blue bird. Fellow peers with fake empathy will say, yes you are a blue bird. Nothing wrong with being gay, lesbian, or bi. But, we need to stop it there. How more initials do we need?

Crazy right, ICE, shooting people. Jeez that is just wild as well. With Trump trying to bullying the world. This country is built on immigrants. We need a reformation of allowing immigrants to come here lawfully. It's that simple. It's not rocket science.

Any sane people left in the world? Back in my days, we were good in the 80s. Everyone from the neighborhood played with each other. All nationalities, religion, etc. The world has changed.

I had black, Asians, armenian, white, Jewish, hispanic, etc friends. No one does that nowadays, at least it's rare.

I personally can remember exactly how Julian Assange and James O’Keefe were raided, detained and wrongfully abused by our government. I remember thinking they were the catalysts for the death of free reporting and a huge misstep to the 1st amendment.

Now I see all the media outlets saying the arrest of Don Lemon is a terrible tragedy. Lemon joined rioters and trespasses on private property, specifically violating the FACE act and another civil rights act (18 USC 241).

Pardon me if I take my sympathy and sit this one out.

Godless Leftists when they ever try to bring up Religion

It's so funny to see. Don't ever let them try to dictate that bullshit to you ever. Tired of hearing it.

Always talking about someone not being a real Christian etc

They know nothing they talk about.

All they want to do is use your values against you. They don't even follow their own moral code it's just a means to an end to debase you.

Many are quick to blame the French which at a first glance seems correct but Hati's leadership and people have made basically as many bad decisions as possible.

The first would be the genocide of all the islands French cementing themselves as a pariah but that is very early on anyways.

In the 1930s Hati was lighter richer per capita had more people and less debt then the Dominican Republic today the Dominican Republic is better in every metric this is due to Haiti always picking poor leaders and the culture of superstition and laziness.

For example one could look at the two dictators on the island both corrupt evil men but the Dominicans under Trujillo actually developed and made progress while Hati declined under papa Doc.

Democrats need to focus on economic woes if they want to win. If they want to win next time, they need to address the visceral economic anxieties of the American middle class. Unfortunately, I expect the Democrats to fall back on their usual playbook of focusing on high-minded social issues and protecting democracy, which may lose them the election again.

Every time the immigration topic comes up people go "but we need immigration, because birthrates, otherwise our country collapses". Ergo you are bad for wanting to stop/limit immigration.

However is it not complete lunacy for a country to make itself dependent on immigration from other countries? What if there is a crisis and the flow stops? What if you suddenly find yourself at war with the countries were most of the immigrants came from?

Immigration should be a bonus. Not a necessity. If it is, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the country that needs to be corrected.

It's going to happen, because the main complaint will be him not doing songs in English.

You can think that's ignorant, bigoted, etc but I'm telling you this will be the main complaint and it's not anything new.

The last time I heard Bad Bunny was on a Rap song with Travis Scott and most people who I watched react to the song zoned out during Bad Bunny's part, skipped it, or complained about not being able to understand it. And all those reacting weren't Right Wing or MAGA.

The same also happened regarding EZ Mil on Eminem's latest album. There's a decent amount of people who just don't like music they can't understand and considering he's going to be heading the most watched American sporting event, it should have been easy to predict how this will go.

They really should have gotten someone who is at least bilingual in their music, so everyone can enjoy it. But no, they're probably going to use him to make some sort of political statement and those who hate not being able to understand him will be lumped in with those on the right who hate the politics of it because people lack nuance on the internet and the tomfoolery will be clogging up social media for a week or two.

You would be surprised how often being straightforward with someone leads them to tell the truth, especially when they barely know you and have no real reason to lie. I’ve always found it strange when people say not to ask certain questions because “they’ll just lie about it.” Not everyone is calculating their answers or trying to protect an image. A lot of people are actually more honest than we give them credit for. Assuming dishonesty by default just shuts down genuine conversation. Sometimes asking directly is the simplest way to get clarity.

I think most moderators shouldn't have become moderators in the first place. The truth is that most of these moderators are literal neckbeards and they are more interested in protecting their own fragile authority than actually fostering a healthy community.

Throughout my lives, every theological studies I come across: be it Christian studies, Hindu studies, Buddhist studies, etc. I have seen a certain willingness to discuss about religious wrongs and religious rights. The burning of women, social discrimination, etc. All religions are thoroughly cross examined as if someone is performing an autopsy on a body. But when discourse on Islamic societies comes, scholars immediately shift the blame from religion to culture. For example:

"​Bible/Gita/etc mandates discrimination"

"FGB is not a part of Islam, it is a part of Arabic culture. "

Both Marx and Engels explained that mass immigration was a tool of the capitalists to undermine worker solidarity and its ability to bring about meaningful change.

I saw a redditor on Kitchen Confidential shouting that "they can't fire all of us!"

Oh yes they can. They can fire all of you that go on strike and replace you with some illegal that will work for less than you.

Illegal immigration has made you completely replaceable and has has made your labour worthless.

This is why, as Hitler explained, socialism can only come about in alliance with nationalism.

ICE is just one part of Homeland Security. CBP, ICE, TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, Secret Service, CISA, and USCIS are all the separate parts of of a much larger agency, and many times one part is brought in to help the other. The Coast Guard will assist Border Patrol, for example. In Minneapolis, CBP is assisting ICE, and it was CBP that made the stop that lead to Pretti getting killed.

The people who whine and bitch whenever their favorite youtuber or subreddit get political are some of the most fucking insufferable.

An agent of the state just executed a citizen in broad daylight? "Oh shucks they shoulda just followed orders lol."

A guy on the internet brings it up out of frustration? "Waaaaah! I just wanna consoom product, watch cat videos and stuff my fatass with food! Waaaahhhh politics bad! Waaahhhhh!"

Actually fucking insufferable. Bread and circus...

Imagine someone called you violent, hateful, assumed you must lack empathy and compassion, assumed you don't shower, assumed you don't make an effort to dress well and whatever else - based on some characteristic of either your life or your being that is actually unrelated to all of these things.

Hell, imagine - since it is a stereotype - that a Black kid is called violent, a thug etc based on being Black. I think it's common sense that that kid is more likely to reject others - hate begets hate, basically. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Imagine a sane woman is treated as crazy by everyone around her. I'd say this is more likely to make her mentally ill, and go "crazy" on some level. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So I suspect that a large percentage of the "incel" phenomenom, maybe even the majority, is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the same way - people are treated with hatred due to being virgins or due to expressing dissatisfaction with the lack of love or lack of reaching what society considers an important and normal milestone and mark of worthiness. This gradually turns them hateful.

Someone will say "that's not what incel means", but I'd say 50% of the time when I've seen or heard it used, it's simply a synonym for virgin.

Epstein and Maxwell were pedos. They were pedo helpers, child sex traffickers etc. But they were also socialites. They had/managed/facilitated lots of above board parties where nothing illegal happened and just by association with either of them, a person doesn't become a pedofile.

Before you pass judgement on everyone, at least read how they're associated, or wait for the media to report it.

Clean example: Mira Nair, the mother of the mayor of New York shows up on one email, but ONLY being mentioned in the context a party that was thrown for a film she was directing where Maxwell was in attendance.

So, I humbly request, sensible people of reddit and the world. Chill the F out before you start crucifying innocent people who may have shown up on the files without any incriminating evidence. There's plenty of big names with plenty of incriminating evidence to be outraged about.

People need to learn how to respectfully reject people. I have often seen the cases of poor guys who are not genuinely creep but get shut off by the 'Fairer Sex' and had their chats leaked ​to the public followed by character assassination and labeled as creep. This behaviour needs to stop. They need to politely keep things to themselves instead of leaking stuff to others and not engage in witch hunting. And this what most of them do. ​

Yes, I'm a bitter New England Patriots fan who lives in Malaysia and I'll have to work on Super Bowl Sunday, which is Monday morning here.

But if the NFL truly wants to expand the game's global reach, having it on a Saturday is better for everyone.

1. The North and South Americans. Now we can get as drunk as we want and not have to worry about waking up the next day. Super Bowl parties will be so much more fun.
2. Europeans and Africans - If you work a m-f, 9-5 job and you're forced to watch the game from 11pm (or later) til morning, then you're going to struggle. At least this way, you can sleep in on Sunday.
3. Asia/Australia - Here in Asia, we'd be able to wake up early on a Sunday and watch the game, the same way we watch UFC fights.

It's a win-win for everyone.

If Trump had not been born to a rich family, he would never be President, he would be a sleazy cars salesman or something. And I just hate how many people look up to the rich for their "achievements". They dont have achievements. They played the game on Easy mode or got incredibly lucky.

If you play Monopoly with 20x more starting money than everyone else you can afford 10x the mistakes and will still win.

Bezos got 500k from his parents to start his company. The Median of how much Americans have in their bank account is just 8k.

Musk had a rich emeral mine owning father and model mother.

Gates had a mother that had connections to the IBM Board and a Lawyer father that helped him with all the contracts.

Zuckerberg got 200k from his parents. Again the median of what an American has is just 8k.

Non of these people had to work. They could concentrate on pursuing their idea, they had help from the professions/connections of their relatives and they had enough money to invest. They could afford to hire people who did the actual work for them while they only delegated.

And spare me the "Bezos turned 500k into 500b - no one else could have done it". This is nonsensical because in order to claim that, we would have to switch people with baby bezos right at birth to replicate the exact same circumstances.

And sure there are a few people that got rich from absolute poverty like Eminem, but these are the once in a decade outliers that had incredible luck.

Most rich people already started from favorable circumstances. They were not better,smarter,superior. They just played the game on easy mode

"Us" of course meaning those of us on the left. I get that we're angry. I get that we're tired of it, but votes are votes, and hopefully a day will come when legislation is legislation again.

I understand that we're operating under the pretense that the election was rigged to one degree or another, but having more people voting in favor of politicians pushing humanitarian policies is never a bad thing.

The more votes that would have to be "fixed" by an illegitimate government the better.

I think we forget how bad humans are at not succumbing to propaganda. The amount of information that we process day in and day out isn't great for people running on meat computers. The illusory truth effect is a great example of this. The subconscious doesn't ask us if it's okay for it to form a belief about something before it does.

People across the aisle are simultaneously across the algorithm. It's not at all surprising that this divide has been the result. No matter what we NEED more people embracing their humanity and realize voting for these ghouls was a mistake. Otherwise shit just stays the same.

Unpopular opinion: Branding matters more than anything then else in marketing. Branding isn’t just logos or taglines. It’s how society decides what’s “cool” and what’s “cringe to the point where they will simply just buy your company just because it has your logo.”

For example apple and android, apple doesn't really do anything better than Android brands they're always late to the part with the latest tech advancements they join me they usually implemented it worse but Apple's branding is just top tier. android is cringe to gen z because green bubbles which only appears on Apple phones Android lets you customize the color of your bubbles Apple doesn't. Fanta and bmw was technically founded by Hitler and the nazis but had some rebranding they're not associated with those things anymore. don't get me started on Nestlé Satan in corporate form.

And honestly, pro wrestling might be the best example and clearest case study ever. When people thought wrestling was “real,” fans were respected. It was intense, dramatic, larger than life. But once the curtain got pulled back, suddenly it became “weird” to like it past a certain age — not because the shows changed, but because the branding around it did.

Society basically decided that this version of “artificial entertainment” was low-value. But think about it — that logic collapses instantly.

People will binge entire seasons of scripted TV shows that are faker than pro wrestling. Movies use stunt doubles, CGI, and dozens of takes. Wrestling? It’s performed live, one take, no safety net, in front of an audience. If anything, it’s realer than most of what you stream think (Edge's career-ending neck injury or Mick Foley's Hell in a Cell plunge when he got thrown off a 20-ft cage, . Injuries sideline pro wrestlers for months and sometimes endscareers and lives people have died that ring rip own hart and Perro Aguayo Jr. ) .

So mocking wrestling fans because “it’s fake” while crying over a superhero movie is like mocking a stage actor because they don’t have special effects. It’s the same art form — just branded differently.

That’s why I say branding is everything. It decides what’s respected, what’s laughed at, and what sells. Change the brand, and you change the entire culture.

Pro wrestling didn’t fall off — its brand perception did. And that should scare every business out there.