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by satisfice 619 days ago
You don’t know what heroism is. Read the literature of heroism before you decide you hate your fellow humans. Each one of us is capable of heroism.
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And a system that requires it if it’s employees to function is fundamentally abusive
The article is not about real heroism though. It’s about workplace “heroes” in the sense of diligent, creative, productive workers who have to take personal responsibility for the success of the business despite lacking support from said business.
Ah, now the Natural Born Heroes heroism and the virtue of Xenia (ξενία) I can get behind.

It's the ego-inflating ""heroes" in scare quotes" that crave validation that I find so exasperating.