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[โ€“] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm of the opinion that a lot of people if not most arguably don't really make a choice about who they are. They don't live with intentionality, they don't consider their agency, they just run on autopilot with the baseline personhood they were built with.

I think you are spot-on with this, and that it very much includes many "successful" people who others automatically assume they should try to emulate. It's especially bad here in the US.

[โ€“] Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

That's one of the things that bothers me with how western values can be in relation to success, there's this idea that a type of personality or attitude will mean success, but there's a lot of times where success just kind of happens, and money in sufficient quantities will reproduce independent of who's holding it, like some kind of virus.