both high school hierarchies and company hierarchies are both tree structures. there is a direction of “up”. trading with or against this gradient applies a multiplier making the trade asymmetric
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the effort exerted in these tussles generates “free” energy created that can be redirected and transmuted into other forms like money for the company. this allows you asymmetric reward for the effort
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think about how u worked extra hard for some recognition. then compound that upwards multiple layers and you can get a sense for how much energy can be created out of nothing but status interactions
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the clueless (in the gervais sense) try to climb this ladder by contorting their values to the value hierarchy the losers conform but create a parallel value hierarchy for social relationships
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the sociopaths on the other hand set about using this compounding dynamic for themselves. either they subordinate enough colleagues into a lieutenant role to have real political power, or they demonstrate this ability enough that they are promoted into the upper ranks
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(in tech often times this is done not within the company but as ceo of another company looking to be acquihired)
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this is how “will to power” works just as the programming command “open” leverages decades of compressed computer science knowledge via an abstracted function that calls layers and layers of lower level functions, “will to power” utilizes layers and layers of hooman will
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