Personality is important and is one of the defining aspects of business, work and life. There has been a sense that "better than you" is a way to treat people. While excessive rudeness and self interest seems to make sense in the short run one must keep in mind the organizational benefits of concepts such as agreeableness and humility within one's personality repertoire.
Consider Two Studies....
-A research study of 3,900 studies found that agreeableness was an important trait for work success. Agreeableness Metanalysis.-Humility has an important and positive impact on the performance of organizations, individuals, and teams. Humility Study.
The traits of agreeableness and humility are collective oriented in meaning as they are part of the process of developing higher group performance. Such people recognize the value of others beyond being tools or extensions of themselves or their needs. People are valued for their own sake. (It is also why people stay with organizations.)
Hiring people that have agreeableness and humility is helpful to the development of the entire organization while hiring people with "better than you" personality distortions can be destructive. While people with toxic personalities may realize short term gains they fall short when it comes to long term performance not only for themselves but also for everyone else.
(Side Note: I've seen where one overconfident personality that is "better than you" could warp all the personalities around them. Telling them "no" even when you have every legal and moral reason to do so can launch a narcissists rage. Dangerous if weaker personalities fall in line with that hate and don't have the backbone to stand up for something greater!
When they a view a person's race or religion as lower than their own, hate can be exploited as a social tool. Worse, as people file in to support the distortions as flying monkeys bent on harming the targets they become both the projectors of hate and the victims to the appeal of hate.
Institutions begin to default on these social networks as local officials seek to please their friends and associates. The further they go, the more you see the distortion, and the less they see it in themselves (i.e. indoctrination). As we deal with extremism in this country let us recognize the destructive power of mental health the underpinnings of "better than you".
In this case, they devalued just a little too much and it snagged them. Research on Selfishness and Game Theory. I guess its true on a local or national level. 🤷 👆
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