Five-decade UK study finds that aggression at school leads to better-paying jobs, while those with emotional instability went on to earn less

Five-decade UK study finds that aggression at school leads to better-paying jobs, while those with emotional instability went on to earn less

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  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    25·
    8 months ago

    It’s a sad hard truth that aggressive bully types do better than the victims of bullying in later life. I myself was bullied and tormented throughout school, by kids who were nasty in their aggression and very physical about it.

    I never had kids because I didn’t want to see them experience any of the filth I had to go through. But if I did, I tell them to be the bullies, to go beat the shit out of everyone they can, because that’s the only kind of behavior that really gets rewarded in this world.

      • tygerprints@kbin.social
        11·
        8 months ago

        Only the actual bullies get the real rewards in life. There is no exception to that rule at all.

        • Maeve@kbin.social
          4·
          8 months ago

          No. You were cursed by bullying and rather than break the curse, you embraced and visited it upon others. I tried both and everything in the middle. We’re all in it together, and only as string as the weakest links, and that lesson is about to be revisited to us in a massive way.

          Bullying is weak and showcases our own insecurities, our own lack of self worth. Ayn Rand was a charleton and hypocrite, and harking back to the reply about this being year one and all that other pseudo - Crowley, pseudo-Laveyan, pseudo -Rand nonsense, so was Lavey.

          The real strength is in forgiveness, compassion for self and others, because as the Buddha (who said not to make a religion of his words but test them ourselves): resentment is like swallowing poison and expecting the resented to die.

          Projection “only changes the appearance of reality,” (and usually only to ourselves and the weak minded, those who can’t lead themselves but would lead the world right into utter destruction).

          “The real magic is changing reality by changing ourselves.” But I get it. That’s hard, dirty work and involves a lot of “digging up corpses” of our past, dealing with them, then giving them a proper burial. Eeew! Shadow work is messy, painful, stinky and ugly. The effort yields it’s own rewards.