If the world was filled with people with KK's attitude, humanity would have died off a very long time ago.

I disagree. The world is in fact filled with people with this attitude. And it is likely why we're still here at all.

"…it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend one another, it will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring."

—Charles Darwin (the Ascent of Man)

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bpt3 a day ago | parent [-]

You realize I'm talking about the author (KK), not the people he was basically grifting?

I have edited my comment to make it more clear.

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JKCalhoun a day ago | parent [-]

I did not realize, thanks for the clarification.

I think you're leaning a little too hard on Kevin though. Grifting is putting a bit of a fine point on it.

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0x1ceb00da a day ago | parent | next [-]

I saw him as a content creator doing some research, like pewdiepie or mrbeast. He's a good writer though. The article was a fun read.

> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. Everything we want will come if we strive for that. Sounds obvious but after 6 months in the weeds a lot of people tend to forget what we are actually trying to achieve here.

- mr beast

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bpt3 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I figured not, apologies for not making it clear.

KK is basically encouraging people to go out in the world and say "what can this place do for me today?" which is bad enough on its surface, but he's doing it while interacting with people (in this story at least) who have much, much less than him in so many ways. I'm not sure what you want to call it exactly, but it feels exploitative and antisocial to me at a minimum.

	▲	moron4hire a day ago \| parent [-]
		"Grifter" is exactly the word that came to my mind as I was reading the article, for whatever that's worth.

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hliyan a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Only if it's not reciprocal. There was another comment here about how someone who helped KK emailed him much later for some help, and he immediately remembered and invited him over to talk. Gratitude leads to reciprocation.

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afpx a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If a species is going to die out anyway, shouldn't it try to go out in a way respectful to its self-identity (assuming it's smart enough to have self-identity)?

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buellerbueller a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Conversely, if the world was filled with people with this attitude, humanity would be living in a stable, post-scarcity situation from a very long time ago.

	▲	bpt3 a day ago \| parent [-]
		No, because everyone would be waiting around to be helped rather than producing the abundance required for a post-scarcity society (which can never actually exist by the way). You can't eat or sleep in gratitude, especially from people who have no intent of repaying your favors. Edit: To be clear, I was talking about the author in my comment above.