trunkage said:
If you listen to any media broadcast, apparently bullying is still a massive problem at schools. Or workplaces named Riot.
I try to get my kids to be respectful to others. Honestly, it probably means that they will be pretty unsuccessful in life, as most people who are successful have trampled over someone to get where they are.
Depends on how you measure success. Even in the corporate or political world, where I have seen people actively sabotage the careers of others for their self-interest, the thing is that
common shareholders don't want to see that sort of thing. It is in the best interests of a corporation to try to 'trim the fat' where they can.
The whole reason of Riot Games trying to clean up its image is because there's a good chance Tencent (the parent company) will like be; "So what's all this about people sending dick pics to workers when they, you know,
should be working and not harassed while doing so?"
Or at least that's how I personally would be if managing an operation. Because I can't imagine much is getting done while pointing their iPhones at their crotches. I'm certain I'm either paying them too much, for too many hours, for not enough
work... I'm at least damn certain the shareholders will agree with me if a publicly traded company.
Then again Tencent do just about fucking everything, the many tentacled international beast that it is ... so they might simply
do nothing.
And if we're talking the type of success like them and their friends opening up a co-operative business interest and actually forming healthy social and mercantile connections with an eye to employing talent and creating a rewarding business culture... well a decent boss is automatically better than a bigoted arsehole.
Then of course you have social success. You know ... being a decent person, and making good friendships, and being seen as a proactive figure in the community? All of which I would say is 'successful' ... all of which can
make one happy. Of which if you manage to pull that off, being legitimately happy, you've done just about everything you can do and about as successful as you can get.
It's just about the only thing you can't buy, and ultimately the only thing that actually matters.
I've met scientists who earn less than I did as a third year teacher. Despite having all (most of) the qualifications to do that job, and probably be less taxing on their headspace. But then again, they don't do what they do for the money. They do it because it interests them. And if your kids are ever in a position to select a job just on those grounds alone and still afford a roof over their head and electricity through their sockets .... well, ranks as 'successful' to me. About as best as you can hope for ... and honestly, being a self-interested prick often gets in the way of that.
Works in reverse, too. I knew teachers that were teachers precisely because they didn't like traditional ideas of a job in academia. They wanted to be 'where the action is'. Shaping young minds at the source.
If we ever live in a society where such things can't be considered 'successful' ... Heaven help us, because nothing else will.
