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I wish humans could not deliberately lie or otherwise deceive each other. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Are you a family though? Is how you make money for your boss so well representative of your character as they claim? In almost all cases, and moreso the larger the business, there is a different, expected dialect meant to obfuscate the purely transactional nature of your presence there, increase productivity without commensurate compensation increase, minimize the cruelty of employer's unrealistic expectations and orders, and restrict employee expression of dissatisfaction, expectation, negative affect or emotion.

The shiny, happy stepford language. Some actually come to internalize it as they actually try to play the rigged game, poor bastards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm simply stating that if deception were the core of human communication we eould have never built civilization in the first place. The fact that it is still mostly operating shows that most people still operate on truth as their core communication tenant. Otherwise if I ordered a burger at a restaurant the staff would actually have to deduce I wanted a salad.