[delusional]

> Unless the goal isn’t a productive outcome, but just to be mean?

Some people are just mean. They spend their angry little lives walking around "outraged" by any minor inconvenience. They assume every single little happenstance was designed to make them miserable.

The greatest thing about having a good education and working with other experts is that I generally don't meet this people that much, but I remember them all too well.

[faangguyindia]

Being rude is not effortless, it requires someone spending significant amount of energy on you

And most people who wronged me were never really rude to me. So i don't even use someone's rudeness as filter for anything.

[rolandog]

Agreed. However, I often wonder if people like that are deliberately (or inadvertently) being a psyop seeking to burn out people ala how "Jia Tan" tried to become maintainer of xz [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?t=597