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Re:Government Hired a Firm for $13.6M to Hire Recruits. It H... by ptero on Friday December 14, 2018 @10:30AM (#18681470)
I am not sure I understand. My claim is the situation where you spend your money on someone else is not that "I do not care" (which the empathy can help solve), but "I do not know", so I will make an optimal choice: decent gift at reasonable cost; paying more can give poor ROI since I do not know what exactly to spend more money on.
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Re:Government Hired a Firm for $13.6M to Hire Recruits. It H... by Retra on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:11PM (#18684219)
What I'm saying is that empathy is completely useless... other than the fact that it allows you to turn "someone I don't care about" into "someone I don't know, but care about enough to make meaningful sacrifices for." So the whole point of empathy is that it allows you to avoid a frame of mind where you're spending other peoples' money on things that don't benefit anybody.
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