> you don't have to live with the philosophy assuming people are assholes
It was not a statement of personal belief, but rather a tongue-in-cheek description of how we often view people who we perceive are getting in our way for some reason. Not intended to be taken seriously.
> You also have to be primed in order to see a pattern.
If you do something out of naivete and get burned, and you can't use that experience to recognize the pattern and avoid it in the future, you'll never earn any success in life because no one is born knowing everything one needs to know in order to earn success. You will eventually define yourself as someone who the world hates, who the world couldn't be bothered to tell how to get the things they want.
It was not a statement of personal belief, but rather a tongue-in-cheek description of how we often view people who we perceive are getting in our way for some reason. Not intended to be taken seriously.
> You also have to be primed in order to see a pattern.
If you do something out of naivete and get burned, and you can't use that experience to recognize the pattern and avoid it in the future, you'll never earn any success in life because no one is born knowing everything one needs to know in order to earn success. You will eventually define yourself as someone who the world hates, who the world couldn't be bothered to tell how to get the things they want.