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  • There’s a big difference between academically knowing how a person feels–in a disconnected way–and actually being able to relate to that feeling as if you were experiencing it yourself.

    Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings and emotions of another person.

    You’re right that it’s trivial to find examples of bad people who understand the emotions and feelings of others, but it’s a lot harder to be a bad person when you can share those emotions and feelings yourself.










  • Fair point. It’s been MANY years since I read the book, so I’m probably forgetting some context.

    It just seems like an issue that transcends the nature the productivity base of the economy, and has more to do with how power is distributed (or not!) in society. I mean, being a manufacturing-based economy certainly didn’t keep oligarchs at bay in the early 1900’s US. On the flip side, a coder or a banker can strike just as well as a machinist.

    Anyways, I don’t mean to digress from the main thread…