You Are Not Your Job

Re:You Are Not Your Job by watwut on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:56AM (#47488224)

That article is crating the ground for manosphere, incels and culture wars. It tells the men they have no value and don't really matter as people. Have young men read that article, believe it and you will end up with them joining manosphere, incels and culture wars.

Also, it does in fact matter whether a guy is nice.

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by thevillagechief on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:44AM (#47490270)

I think the article's central point is that being nice is the bare minimum. In fact, probably less than that. If you needed life-saving surgery, it would be great to have a nice surgeon, but you're still going to pick the arrogant surgeon at the top of his field rather than a random nice guy. I will say that I in fact agree that people are innately valuable, but that's more of a philosophical/religious debate here.

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by watwut on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:46AM (#47491122)

I think there might be that aspects, but not really the central point. On the niceness, the article claims that being nice or honest does not matter. And also that they are completely common. Neither are true.

I did not liked the surgery argument either. Of course you should not operate if you do not know how ... but that is issue of overblown ego and arrogance. Not of the niceness. No matter how awesome you are, there will be things you cant do. And framing a guy into as a useless idiot because he is a carpenter rather then surgeon and thus cant operate right there in the street is nonsense. The surgery issue simply wont happen with honest nice guy. That guy will call an ambulance which is certainly better then trying to operate.

Read article again: it literally tell guys that yes, they should be sociopathic and go get some money. That is manosphere in nutshel.

> If you needed life-saving surgery, it would be great to have a nice surgeon, but you're still going to pick the arrogant surgeon at the top of his field

In around about way, the automatic assumption that arrogance = capability did allowed quite a few cranks skate. The manosphere is fully into that point.

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by drfloyd51 on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:44AM (#47491090)

It matters to me. Therefore I try to be nice. I know it costs me some opportunities and some “success”. But I sleep well at night.

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by Our_Benefactors on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:55PM (#47494980)

I think this perspective is false. You have no way of knowing how many more opportunities and success you would cost yourself by being not nice.

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by ThrowawayR2 on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:06PM (#47497408)

The author directly confronts and scolds incels in #4 and also plainly says that it isn't about money there so you clearly have the wrong impression of what the essay is about.

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