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MadRabbit -> RE: Rewarding Failure (11/6/2008 12:53:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
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Most are focusing on the result and not the cause.
The expectation of being rewarded for failure starts in the formative years. Can't do the work of a 1st grader and without permission from your mommy/daddy the school still rewards you with passing onto the second grade. Can't behave and sit still and listen in class? Have a few drugs, it's not your fault you have ADD disease. Can't hit, pitch, or even walk to first base without your inhaler but want to play baseball? Sure - come on and play and get your trophy reward at the end of the year. Can't pass the minimum required math/English test to qualify for a HS degree? Lower standards are imposed and here's your cap & gown. Can't meet the physical requirement to pass the Fireman's test - lower the bar. Can't meet job standards because you have a deprived racial, gender, or physical handicap - install an AA program. Not every time and not in every case, but why try when you're told from a very young age if you fail you don't have to work harder - its not your fault - and here's the reward to which you are entitled?
Why not then expect that when you buy a house you can't afford that the government should prevent the loan holder from executing foreclosure? Why as the holder of all those bad loans shouldn't you expect the same government to reward your failed lending policies with a bail out? Why not reward a car company who didn't plan for a future where the 'global warming' religion became popular who now can't sell the SUV's they instead designed?
It's not isolated to corporations - they just get the big press. Ironically it's the reward of individuals within the corporation that may finally bring some much needed attention to what has become a common practice in the US. However it will only happen if it is pointed out each and every time its observed. The hypocrisy of selectively assigning the label failure will only rationalize making some rewards of failure okay while others are castigated.
The process of selective labeling, results in complacency and a wondering why work at all if success only results in funding more opportunity for others to fail? Why think outside the box, work to be self sufficient, or expect to incur the consequence for decisions when all around you for all your life failure was encourage through rewards?
I couldn't agree more, Merc.
You can see the results of a society that rewards failure when people can't manage to coherently write out a small paragraph without a major number of grammar and spelling errors or manage to form a logical argument against another member's viewpoint without reducing to personal attacks, but yet somehow manage to keep an unearned and undeserved air of superiority and arrogance about them as they condescend to other people.
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