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> Those are part of the "existing-in-modern-society-as-a-human-being competency matrix", along with bathing and wearing pants as often as possible.

Excuse me but did you just present attitude, communication and other soft-skills as an absolute bare minimum and a total given that pretty much anyone "existing-in-modern-society-as-a-human-being" would live up to anyway? Where is this dream world and how do I get there?

Need I remind you of examples like geeks practically sexually harassing girls at conferences in this day and age? Or the insane amount of social-anxiety / communications / soft-skills related cries for self-help all over the net? We are FAR from any of this being a standard.




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