This is from LinkedIn, isn’t it?! That’s the only appropriate place for such a poll.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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Night shift? Pffft. Give me my 3 AM baguette, you useless member of society you. WOA, HEY!! DON'T THROW IT AT ME! Do you know who my father is?!?
hear that, night shift? fuck you, trying to keep eye on the valuable artifacts and shit.
Whew! 7am
5.20. Unfortunately.
Why can't I select multiple?
I wonder if there is any historical way of evaluating human empathy.
It seems to me that there are far more people that lack inherent empathy, let alone more developed empathy, than there are those that have it.
Capitalism, of course, demands the rejection of empathy.
If we call what the USSR had (at some points) and the CCP (at some points) communism, they still massively lacked empathy. Take Lenin for example. He allowed non-Russian ethic groups the right to secede (Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Estonia). So he appeared to understand that "hey, let's not subject the people who aren't us the ability to be independent of our experiment". He established literacy development, separation of church and state, women's rights. But then he proceeds to use terror and violence to "drive out the old order" leading to some 140,000 state sanctioned murders, established gulags and slave labor camps. This led to the Red/White civil war both sides of which use antisemitism as a means of blame. So here, now, we show that a significant majority of people are lacking empathy.
Empathy is POWERFUL in a social context especially ones Humans evolved with. Individually we could not survive very well. Grouped together we were capable of hunting the largest creatures on earth, while raising children, maintaining shelter, keeping hydrated, and advancing.
Why would we seemingly develop something to the opposite of our survival?
I may be more useless than those lazy 7am nearly useless fucks, but just on some days. Some other days, I am still part of the still holy crusader army 6:45am cutoff.
I get up at 5, but I'm not functional until around 6:30...