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They're still people. Just because the company doesn't motivate them or they have a bad manager or are on a bad team or a million other reasons they don't feel empowered to "participate" (specious since clearly they're employed) doesn't mean you can act like they're soulless bots ffs.

This whole mindset has got to go. You and OP going around like this, it's gross for the world and it's a bad look on you.




sounds like you’re just shaming OP for trying to actually get something done by recognizing practical realities.

If everyone matters the same, no one matters.


What matters is relative to one's perspective. Nothing objectively matters.

Nobody's saying everyone is of equal value, they're saying that reducing your perception of somebody into a 2-dimensional caricature because you don't perceive value in them is the type of disgusting mental habit of somebody who either has no real friends or soon will have none.


Have you ever said about someone, "that guy's an asshole"?

If so, you reduced them into a caricature, and you should have instead said "that guy behaved in the manner of an asshole, though I trust that he is otherwise a fully-actualized individual with a life of his own, and with factors outside my visibility that impact his decisions and behaviors."


Was this intended to be a "gotcha"? I might be giving people more credit than they deserve but I'm pretty sure most people don't relegate folks to "simply an asshole and nothing more". It's just a quick way to say "that guy was being an asshole just then."

Also, it's not apples and oranges comparing a spoken remark in the heat of the moment to a thoughtful, written out blog post.




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