People without answers sometimes go in search of them. Finding those answers could jeopardize others. Sometimes it could jeopardize lives and sometimes it could jeopardize pocket books. This is something not so obvious with leverage. Some people know things that can get others in unrelated incidents in trouble or dead.
Under the gun people might say anything and everything. Truth or lies, half truths, or implicate people from way earlier in life that long since evolved past the mistake they made at this time. Further a room could be bugged by local, national, or international forces. Just because it didn’t matter to the search that person is on doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter to others in the world.
The unknown and being left without answers can have serious and long lasting implications. Finding answers can have the same problems. Being left with a box and told not to open it nothing good can come from that doesn’t really make people want to open the box less. Some people might have had your best interests in mind when they tell you not to open the box. Other’s might not.
Some will use the excuse of once you have opened a box not to help you. They’re in too deep now, nothing I can do. Like seeing a friend in the middle of a volcano. The lava is rising, no helicopter, no rope, no ladder. Nobody wants to see their friend hurt, easy to want to look away.
Sometimes when people think someone knows something they might beat them like a piñata until they spill what’s inside. This is not a controlled environment. The problem with that? You are leaving a lot of variables to chance. They might just as quickly run off the road, have a heart attack, contact the wrong people for protection, or blame the wrong people. “But what if they had information I needed that not knowing could get me or my family in trouble”. That is a possibility. One of many.
People in the middle of already stressful situations might be more apt to try and extract information without caring about the consequences. If life is good, do I really need to know? Or my life has been a shit storm since they have been around. What is going on? There might be many people that have a stake in an answer. Some want the truth to come out and some don’t. Some view your suffering or implications in life of the unknown as inconsequential.
People without answers are more prone to think so but that is not always the case. Is easy to minimize being left without answers until your the one left in the dark. Left to a bottle to drink themselves into a coma. Some people will manufacture answers in their lives for the unknown. They will blame systems, or people, human nature, anything to give them reasons why. When people are searching for answers or opening the box they don’t understand the implications or the side effects of their actions.
An unknown cost is hard to plan for in the budget of life. Some that want to protect their pocket book might think you the cost is high or lives are at stake when they are not. Some of those people could have been mistreated by society and forced to beg and suffer so they are so jaded to trying to protect themselves they don’t understand the impacts they have on the lives around them.
Being in the group has consequences and being out of the group has consequences. Having information has consequences and not having information has consequences. If you knew getting an answer could help one friend and hurt another what would you do. Maybe you don’t know which friends and how much or how little it could effect their lives.
People with a good life might not want to risk rolling the dice. If you have only got snake eyes for years, you might be more likely to roll the dice and find out what is inside the box. A good reason to look out for everyone early on in the picture. When people are happy and healthy they are less likely to want open the box. Just because they didn’t open the box doesn’t mean someone else will. Some think if we only removed that outlier the boat wouldn’t rock.
People prefer to believe the system is stable and their lives will keep going in the same direction. They resist change because life is good or stable enough for them, they can be oblivious to the sufferings of people around them. They can know there is a problem and not be able to fix it. They might view the cost is just too high. This can create instability long term in the system. People that are mistreated can join forces, so governments or corporations can try and micromanage their lives to insure their own stability. A little money from corporations to the disaffected would be far preferable to a ground game of systemic corruption. Sadly some could play this up for the sake of a scam, or the amount of people could instantly go to a number that could bankrupt a company and it can seem like the world is against your family having jobs.
Recall notices and public safety trump corporate decisions, though it would be nice if the community worked together to leave them afloat so they can actually pay the settlements and not take away everyone’s jobs. Doing this though might be unfair to the rest of the public, their company got money and my company and workers were struggling? I should maintain a 150000 salary for a CEO when I was left to suffer on the street? Maybe the guy left on the street is in charge now, why best to protect and look out for people and to push for a more forgiving and merciful world. Some might thinking throwing more shit on the guy or making him out to be a monster might save a company from failing. If the guy calling us out looks bad we look better. Not very wise.
Private jets and expensive corporate parties can help hotels and people build jets. They can help CEOs quickly get to meetings that could mean saving the jobs for many around them. If your the guy on the street knowing people are living it up around you, it hurts. Doesn’t mean people are wrong for wanting nice things or to have a good time. It is not unreasonable though for the people on the street to want their life out of the gutter. Add in systemic oppression and this can be very jading. Against God, against corporations, against the government.
Filtering out the scams from the true problem is hard when protecting your self and your family, it has to be much more difficult with a company that has thousands of people. Don’t prevent enough scams and the corporation goes under and all the people lose their jobs. Some CEOs might put quotas on how much money they will dole out. Doesn’t make much difference what the CEO is thinking when their choices left your family hurting. CEOs might not always know the defense that their company is running both good and bad. Nice to think everyone is looking out for each other though not always the case. “Quiet, if you try to scam the company I will let them know about your past.” “But they actually hurt me. “ Wouldn’t want my company fighting dirty – though not being a CEO it might be hard to know how bad the scams get. Easy to point fingers when your not trying to protect thousands of people’s jobs.
Can you truly love the person your firing? If you can how jading is that. If you know a CEO cares about you that much and still fires you. How jading is that? Probably how people getting divorced feel who still care deeply about each other. Almost better to be crass, unapologetic, and mean so they at least have someone to blame. I understand the reasoning. Maybe the jade is just a bit too burdensome to carry. Harvey firing Donna, or Donna quitting on Harvey – USA series Suits
It is easy to blame someone for opening the box. “You just couldn’t leave it alone, you just couldn’t let us all live life happily ever after”. Easier to say when your not the one left in the dark. No happily ever was ever guarantied and always wise to remember just because they opened the box doesn’t mean someone else wouldn’t have in the near future. Forgiveness and reconciliation early and often.
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