DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoIf you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards.message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1message-squareIf you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards.DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·13 hours agoThat assumes the punch-deserving party is always “upwards” from you.
minus-squarebecausechemistry@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 hours 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.