[lbo-talk] ScienceDaily: Do-Gooders Get Voted Off Island First:People Don't Really Like Unselfish Colleagues, Psychologists Find

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Aug 24 12:42:37 PDT 2010


On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Carrol Cox wrote:


>> Doing it *at work* isn't unselfishness. It's breaking the rules
>> against goldbricking. Of course they deserve to be punished.
>
> British workers at one time had a label for them: "Bloody Jump-Ups."

Yeah, what's so outrageous about these shrinks is:

1) They have gotten it exactly backwards -- the people getting punished are selfish non-cooperators -- *exactly* as established theory and common sense would lead you to suspect. There is no Aha here; and

2) They have equated capitalist goals with the laws of morality.

Blecch. People like this give social psyche a bad name. They should get thrown off the island :-)

Michael



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