viciousness is directly correlated with zero-sumness of the underlying socioeconomic structure
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zero-sumness need not be restricted to dollars. there are zero-sum games in the social capital dynamics as well. only so many prestige positions to be had. career advancement normally comes at the expense of someone else's position. more entering than leaving the industry.
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the insidious inverse of functional fixedness where you can't think of anything but money as a transactional medium
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Replying to @chaosprime @Aelkus and
functional capture there's a decent selling book in that, obviously if some vile dilettante like me is thinking of it though then somebody more authoritative has already written it
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you'd be surprised. vile dilletantism is much more expansive and horizontal than pure expertism, focused and vertical, and tends to be better at coming up with novel permutations because of that.
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oh that sounds truthy, i knew i must have been doing it for a reason
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