[ticulatedspline]

Man what a PoS this guy was.

he started as a lame re-poster

>His head was turned by the substantial sum of money: “I told my wife, wow, it’s £1,000.” >Then, to his annoyance, TikTok immediately deleted his account because he was just stealing other people’s videos and reposting them.

and dove straight into fabricating hate, and worst of all after directly confronted seems to literally have no concept of what he was doing or that it was in any way wrong or distasteful.

>The man appears confused by the fuss his actions have caused. He gives the impression that he considered TikTok’s algorithm and the site’s content regulation policies to be the ultimate arbiter of whether a video crossed a line.

>It wasn’t racist,” the man says of his account. He argues that if the videos had really been racist, TikTok’s algorithm would have downgraded the content.

Seems to lack any internal moral compass, basically if the website lets him slander or lie it must be ok because he has no capacity to assess that value for himself.

Flippin scary people like that are out there.

[safeimp]

If this topic interests you, I recommend `Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation`, by Andrew Marantz. Great read but it's definitely stress inducing at times.

[kubb]

I would say about 20% of people are like that. Total disregard for common good, maximal selfishness.

[munksbeer]

I am a member of an expensive gym in our home town. It has a very good gym but also includes spa facilities. The only reason I pay the price is because it also includes a working area, and because I work remotely most of the week, I do it from the gym, so I have no excuse not to exercise and I also find the spa a good way to unwind. It's a nice way to avoid the long commute to the office but also get out the house.

Anyway, the point to the story is money doesn't buy class. The gym parking is gated and leads into a huge parking area. What happens is that a certain percentage of people consider themselves above everyone else and don't fancy walking the extra 20-100 meters to park in an actual parking, so they just park on the "road" that feeds into the the various parking areas, as it is close to the gym. This means it blocks one lane of that road and cars get backed up having to go around the parked cars.

I always hear announcements calling for the owners of certain license plates, and always know it was these cars. It infuriates me so much. Lately the gym has had to resort to cones along the edges of the road to stop the arseholes.

I just can't fathom such people. It feels so alien to me that I (I mean this literally) can't imagine what actually goes through your head to do that. For anyone who is this selfish, can you explain? Does it not occur to you that this is wrong? Or do you know it and just think "life is unfair, I do what is best for me"? I genuinely don't get it.

So yeah, a bit off topic, and I'm unsure if your 20% figure is too high, but there certainly are a lot of people in the world that are just not nice.

[rwmj]

About 5% of people are narcissistic sociopaths. They don't believe that other people exist, or at least are anything more than actors in a play they control. Try not to elect one as President.

This is a good pop-science book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychopath_Test

[bigbadfeline]

> Total disregard for common good, maximal selfishness.

Or lacking better alternatives for a decent life aggravated by having zero positive role models and a media/political culture whose only positive value is mo' money.

> I would say about 20% of people are like that.

That depends on region, language and the conditions described above. Placing a numeric value collectively on all of humanity conveys zero useful information.

[xnx]

And the Trump is the perfect role model/ideal.

[sunaookami]

Only 20!? More like 90 to 95%

[WheatMillington]

Surely you don't believe that, given a random sample of 20 people, 19 of them will be amoral, selfish, and have no values? Surely this doesn't align with your real life experience - what are your colleagues, friends, family, neighbours and acquaintances like? Do they meet this ratio?

[sunaookami]

It does. It's the #1 reason why western countries are low-trust.

[thisisit]

This endemic of much of the “creator” economy. Anything goes if it gets you clicks. And TikTok does have lose moderation. If this happened on YouTube he would have been demonetised sooner.

[WheatMillington]

When someone has a complete lack of values like this, it always makes me wonder what their upbringing was like.

[jbm]

These people are everywhere.

Instagram serves me antisemetic content consistently with no way for me to downvote it. Likewise when it tries to rage bait me with islamophobic shit.

I do not engage or upvote other than taking screenshots and reporting. At this point I just don't open Instagram except for messages from friends

It is incredible that they literally fund selfish assholes to do this. What worse is that they will not reap the vile harvest.

[tim333]

It sort of explains something that puzzled me which is why people not from London, especially Americans like Trump and Musk seem to think it's a bit of a hell hole with no go areas and the like. As a London resident, it's not really like that. I guess it's down to stuff like in this article.

[sdellis]

Yes, there are people like that out there. If this makes your head spin, I can't imagine what the Epstein Files must be doing to you!