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krschultz on June 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America...

I'm going to guess you will get more growth in your career by learning how to be empathetic than negotiating with such an asinine argument.

ukj on June 16, 2018 [–]

And I am going to guess that knowing when to be strategically empathetic in a negotiation is going to get me even further.

chii on June 16, 2018 | [–]

> strategically empathetic

aka, the sociopathic mentality.

ukj on June 25, 2018 | | | [–]

Exercising my freedom of choice is sociopathic?

Empathy is not the be all and end all. https://www.amazon.com/Against-Empathy-Case-Rational-Compass...

ukj on June 25, 2018 | | | [–]

Also, shame on you for imposing empathy as a social norm!

https://psychcentral.com/lib/neuroscience-sheds-light-on-why...

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