There are two kinds of people in the world.
Statements like this always grab my attention. Life is complicated enough, and people are to blame for it. When all my struggles seem to be getting me nowhere, I can always fall back on Occam’s razor; the simplest possible solution will prevail until a better one replaces it. So for now, there are two kinds of people…
There are people who work hard, and others who are lazy. There are people who are driven by money, and those who are content with whatever they have. Smart, dumb – scary, friendly – passive, assertive – considerate, selfish – there are people who care about me, and there are those who don’t. The hardest thing, in any given situation, is to figure out which two types of people confront me, and to get them quickly into the right stereotypes.
Since the economic crash of 2008, I have sensed a subtle shift in the way people talk about their jobs. Whether the conversation is about a current job or a former one, this shift is always apparent. One name keeps coming up - “they”. From what I can tell, “they” are dumb, scary, assertive and selfish. “They” seem to have an agenda, and it is not a caring one. When bad things happen, “they” get the blame. After hearing this so many times, I can’t help but wonder who these guys are.








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