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  1. ribbonfarm.com

    And now we've toured the worlds of the free, unsupervised children of an absent god who commit those sins, leaving others to suffer the consequences. We're left, at the end of our journey, pondering the human condition according to The Office. Is the human journey one of creative progress scripted by gods.
    • The Gervais Principle

      Part VI: Children of an Absent God: In which we examine the inner lives of Sociopaths and the theaters they create to satisfy the spiritual needs of Losers and the Clueless. Web-Only Extras. Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath; The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle; Ebook-Only Extras

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  3. 1.2 The Gervais Principle and Its Consequences The Gervais Principle: Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-e ort losers to fend for themselves. The Peter Principle: \all people are promoted to ...
  4. ribbonfarm.com

    The Gervais principle differs from the Peter Principle, which it superficially resembles. The Peter Principle states that all people are promoted to the level of their incompetence. It is based on the assumption that future promotions are based on past performance. The Peter Principle is wrong for the simple reason that executives aren't that ...
  5. astralcodexten.com

    In 1995, Scott Adams countered with the even more cynical Dilbert Principle: "companies tend to systematically promote incompetent employees to management to get them out of the workflow".. In 2009, Rao wrote The Gervais Principle, continuing the increasing-cynicism trend.The Principle, named after The Office writer Ricky Gervais, goes:. Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly ...
  6. thepowermoves.com

    The Gervais Principle (2009-2013) is a series of 6 blog posts in which Venkatesh Rao develops a dark theory of business organizations centered around a sociopathic leadership on top that manipulates and exploits the two lower layers of middle management -the clueless simpletons-, and employees -the lowest paid losers-.
  7. However, the Gervais Principle could bring to light why things are sometimes incongruent in books and film. You kind of touch on it so I'd like to mention the thought-line I've been going through recently. It is that perhaps the only thing that matters to Sociopaths is how important they are and how important those around them are.

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