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A story about how I mixed with the dirt of oligarchs
Dive into an exhilarating story of how I boldly and humorously expose oligarchs, mixing their wealth with dirt. Learn about the fight against injustice and the irony that lies behind luxurious facades.
It happened about 15 years ago. I started working on a payment system project. I developed it from scratch, and it turned out to be one of the first SMS payment systems in its field, mainly related to internet resources.
The project developed, and at some point the question arose: what's next? How to grow? That's how I met an oligarch, and we began to develop the project together.
We created a partner program to attract new participants. The first partners were friends of this oligarch. They were all so important, privileged, looking down on you. In general, pretty unpleasant types.
I don’t know what happened to me then, but I started behaving like a complete jerk. And even with them. I could tell them to their face that they were nobody, that my project was way cooler than their capabilities (though, to be honest, that wasn't entirely true). And I said this so confidently and seriously that they simply lost their bearings. They didn't understand how someone could speak to them in such a tone.
And my partner, the oligarch, who was their friend, just laughed and encouraged me:
— Yes! Yes! Keep going!
For some reason, he really enjoyed watching some unknown guy put his friends in their place.
And here’s what’s interesting. I could say a bunch of unpleasant things to a person, tell them that I wasn't going to work with them and that I wouldn’t give them my system. A week would go by, or sometimes even less, and those people would come back. Much more cautiously this time.
They would come up and say something like:
— Maybe we can work together after all? We see you’re a decent guy.
And here’s what I still think about. As strange as it sounds, when you behave firmly and show that you don’t need a person, for some reason, they start to be drawn to you even more. An internal dissonance arises in them: why am I not accepted? Why aren't they admiring me like usual? And they want to fix that.
This happens not only in business. It often happens in personal relationships too: a person loves another, even though that person behaves quite poorly.
Paradoxically, but from my experience, I can say that this mechanism works very often. Not with everyone, of course, but with many. It doesn't matter who is in front of you — an oligarch, an ordinary guy, or a girl.
The hardest part is waking up that kind of toughness within yourself.
Now it has somehow disappeared. I have become an ordinary kind person, perhaps even too kind. And sometimes I feel like people take advantage of that.
So that’s the story.
Want respect? Don’t be afraid to be uncomfortable.
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