Passenger on Nostr: To an extent I think there's some survivorship bias here: there are loads of ...

To an extent I think there's some survivorship bias here: there are loads of empathyless assholes who achieve nothing in life, but we never hear about them.

But in an unequal society, where "success" is defined as the ability to tread on others, empathy is a disadvantage. We can build a better society in which this isn't the case, but we can't do so in a way that requires the buy-in from those who are "successful" under our current system. Master's house, master's tools, and all that.