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Duplicitous Moral Standards

A broken hiring promise becomes a lesson about the moral standards imposed on ordinary people by institutions that lie, steal, and negotiate ruthlessly.

One time i applied to a job in New York

And he was like if you nail the coding interview we’ll fly you out

So i nailed it

Then he calls me and says

So look man. I know we said we’d fly you out but you’re linked in is really weird

And i said how so?

Well you have like thousands of posts

You post multiple times a day

And nobody likes your posts

It’s weird

I was really hurt. For like a millisecond

Then i thought okay who cares? Am i being faulted for not being famous? That’s most men

So i answered oh! I mostly write for seo purposes.

Then he said okay but the flight and hotel are expensive. We’re gonna need a reference first.

And i was thinking but dude! The deal was i nail the interview i get a flight! Whats up! But i stayed quiet

I breathed

I took a cold dip in the ocean that morning in the middle of December

I was prepared

I said okay man no problem

You can call my Good friend Bill

So he did

And i got a free vacation to New York and ended up making like 70k in a month

The moral of the story my friends is your own duplicity

You hold the common man, the worker, the proletariat, the tax payer, the consumer to ridiculous moral standards.

Thou shall not steal.

They steal all the time.

Thou shall not lie.

They lie every advertisement, every job posting, every negotiation.

This is why you are poor and they are rich. They understand that to be successful you must be ruthless.

I want to be nice. I don’t want to trash what you thought the world was. But why not look at how the world is? Why not open our eyes and see the truth?

We must be strong

We must be cunning

We must be kind yes. But i will never let anyone walk over me.

There are certain things a man can never, and should never compromise.

Death is Honorable

Poverty is Honorable

In order to never, never, be dishonoured.

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