One interesting way to break the sunk cost is to think about the cost of staying to other people. You might be willing to absorb the abuse yourself — but are you willing to put your family through the effects of your staying?
They tend to have quite a power of persuasion and dominance in person. That gets diminished when they are reduced to words on a page.
It’s more like a you problem than a them problem. You have a problem with their behaviour, but they don’t have the same level of empathy or concern for others. So why would they care about it?
That stress doesn’t just stay in the office. We get in our car, we get on the subway, we bring it home with us. If you have a high-psychopathy boss, research shows you actually have more conflict at home too.
They are not held back by care, compassion, concern, or remorse. They are very willing to lie to get what they want.
No matter how poor you are, you don’t really have to wear rags anymore. Why? Because technology automated the production of t-shirts.
It’s this weird dichotomy of superintelligence and super stupidity, sort of mixed in one scenario.
The way we should think about intelligence is in terms of a volume in a high-dimensional space.
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