Ambition, when attached to selfishness and competency, can quickly become net bad for the surroundinging system.
- Ambition, when attached to selfishness and competency, can quickly become net bad for the surroundinging system.
- Slytherin for example is ambitious.
- Ambition unchecked by shame will take shortcuts with significant externalities.
- Imagine a choice in front of you.
- One way is the right way.
- You take a personal penalty.
- The other way is a shortcut, with externalities.
- But no one will ever know you did it.
- How big must the externality be before you don't take it?
- Everyone has a threshold.
- Some people's thresholds are significantly lower than other people's.