DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIf you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards.message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareIf you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards.DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThat assumes the punch-deserving party is always “upwards” from you.
minus-squarebecausechemistry@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoIf you punch down, towards people that are less influential or less capable than you, someone “upward” of you is probably benefitting from the lower people fighting each other instead of themselves.
That assumes the punch-deserving party is always “upwards” from you.
If you punch down, towards people that are less influential or less capable than you, someone “upward” of you is probably benefitting from the lower people fighting each other instead of themselves.