Controversial opinion but you don’t need empathy to be a good person. The idea that you do is extremely ableistic to those with anti-social/narcissistic and other personality disorders.
Well, if you have empathy, you usually aren’t successful (at least in the last ~20 years).
Don’t buy into their propaganda. Succesful is not the same as being ultrarich. There are many parameters in which you can be succesful.
How about being able to afford food?
Excellent summary. It’s not just Musk that doesn’t understand empathy — it’s ALL the tech bros.
It’s all powerful people. Many studies show that social power affects the brain, suppressing empathy centers.
As you get more wealth, status or fame, your brain becomes less capable of empathy and closer to the brain of a psychopath.
As long as we have hierarchies, we will be ruled by villains.
Apparently a ton of the tech bros are part of cults in SF that practice rationalism. Some offshoots of rationalism attempt to “jailbreak” the mind into psychopathy. They quite literally teach that psychopathy is a net benefit for the individual and they strive to become psychopathic as a tool for success.
Controversial opinion but you don’t need empathy to be a good person. The idea that you do is extremely ableistic to those with anti-social/narcissistic and other personality disorders.
