Normalizing selfishness
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Normalizing selfishness
Other people feed the greed. They give discounts, break the rules, slip you free handouts to curry favor. But that role is also hard to maintain—eventually their false generosity eats into someone else’s profits. Feeding the greed isn’t a good way to differentiate, anyway; a lot of people are already struggling to occupy that space.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
When we assume people are principally selfish, we design systems that reward selfish people.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
sari added
Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
sari added
How the Inequality Around Us Shapes Our Perceptions of Morality
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu
Laura Bernier added
Yancey Strickler argues that the way we see our self influences what we perceive as valuable - a concept he further expands through Metalabel and his idea of post-individualism.
Yancey Strickler • This Could Be Our Future by Yancey Strickler: 9780525560845 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Severin Matusek and added
most egregious form of self-orientation is, of course, simple selfishness, being “in it for the money.”
David H. Maister • The Trusted Advisor
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
bitsaboutmoney.com
Jake and added
The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.