These are the most hated people in Silicon Valley. But if you’re spending time trashing them, you’re wasting your life.
A young techie in San Francisco put up a picture of himself and pals having dinner at a nice restaurant. The caption: “went to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford).”
The photo has 17.6 million views and counting. Thousands of people are trashing them in the ugliest terms imaginable.
You don’t have to love these people. But any minute spent attacking them is a minute wasted.
You don’t know them. They don’t matter to you. And you don’t matter to them.
Yes, they went to elite universities. But that doesn’t take anything away from you.
I went to state school, University of Wisconsin-Madison. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be happy for these young people who went to colleges higher ranked than mine.
If they had failed, do I get something? Does a guy show up at my house with one of those giant checks?
No. So stop hatin’.
There’s an especially ugly element to this particular internet mob. Many of the comments about these young people are about the fact that they’re (almost) all Asian.
People hate successful Asians.
Many Asians have done well in America. And good for them!
But what if they hadn’t? Then, people would deride them as welfare cheats.
They can’t win.
Now, Can I claim to be St. Francis who’s never talked trash about someone? Certainly not.
I know I’ve said unkind and insensitive things in my life. I try not to, but sometimes I let myself slip into it.
In the end, the people I’m trashing probably don’t know or care what I think. But I still try to stop myself from this petty behavior.
Why? Because it’s a waste of life.
I’m 39 years old. Optimistically, I may have another 50 years on the planet. If scientists figure something out, maybe that’s 100, but we can’t count on that.
Why spend minutes, hours, days denigrating someone? Where does that get me?
Nowhere.
Hating some random people in San Francisco I’ve never met won’t help me.
I’m better off focusing on myself. And so are you.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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