Venting There are winners and there are losers

[Hadnafoflife]

This is how I internally view the world not that it's necceserily true but it is how I grew to see it, Might makes right, You are either strong or weak either good or bad things happen to you and if you can't control your environment then bad things might happen, If you are weak people will tear you, you will have less respect it's a lose-lose situation, If you are strong people will admire you and it's a win-win situation, There is no empathy in my view, The cruel and strong doesn't get punished and is a winner, The weak and kind is pathetic, of course there is strong and kind and weak and cruel but that doesn't change their fate, This is a quick vent about how i naturally see the world due to certain traumas and memories i hold, This is also the world view of people like Donald Trump.

What do you think about this? Share your thoughts, I'm by no means saying that this is completely how the world works it's just how my conditioned mind sees it

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I agree, there are winners and losers.
Whether we win or lose depends mostly on luck.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've definitely known successful people who are utterly ruthless. Sometimes though, I'm surprised that there are fairly nice people who have managed to do well also. Maybe they had more of an optimism and drive about them. Sometimes they had financial backing from the start. That has to help.

I suppose weakness is targetted. Both by people who seek to exploit. But then- someone 'weak' may have so little drive or confidence that they never push themselves to do things. And people may not have the patience to carry them.

I'm not the most confident. I've been told in just about every job I've done that I needed to be more confident. It's hard to be what you're not though.

Truthfully though, I dislike some of the kinds of people who do really well in this world. I've had managers who were really heartless who rise through the ranks seemingly because they are capable of being unethical and ruthless. I find it upsetting that the world rewards people like that.

I tend to have a suspicion- when people do really well- that they may have a ruthless streak. But then, I'm not always right.

 

[Nightfoot]

I don't remember the source, but the quote is, "Comparison is the thief of joy." The idea of winners and losers assumes life as a game and lots of people live as though it was. That said, social hierarchies do exist throughout the animal kingdom, especially seen in mammals, but even bees have assigned positions in what we call the pecking order. That exists among humans, as well, and is strongly tied to things like money or other social currencies like physical attractiveness and assertiveness. These confer power for those who possess these assets. In a way, seeing life as a game seems accurate as luck seems to deal each of us a hand to play and some hands are better at winning a successful and happy existence. But even narcissists carry pain of the shame they've buried so deeply they don't know the source of their pain, so they try to soothe it by dominating others, never being wrong and, most importantly, "winning."