So, just wanted to start of by telling you I’ll love you forever for casting Gwendoline Christie in Sandman. I’m a huge fan of her and I’ve already seen everything else she’s been in, so new content is very appreciated.
So, if you could just tell me anything about her I would be eternally grateful yet again.
DIN DJARIN. Orphaned as a child, Din was a foundling adopted into the Mandalorian culture. He trained as a warrior and later became a bounty hunter — renowned as the best in the parsec and bearing the title of his people, THE MANDALORIAN.
Mephistopheles and Margaretta, A Double Statue - medium: sculpture, sycamore wood, sculptor unknown, 19th century. Currently located in the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, India.
I think part of the issue is people assuming that everyone MUST want to move upwards. Like… it’s the next logical step for a person to want to move up the chain: from worker to manager, to district manager, eventually owner.
But I always think of growth like plants.
Aspens grow tall to reach the sun, for sure. But dandelions grow deep, understanding themselves fully so that if some misguided fool tries to uproot them they’d have to try damn hard. And then there’s thyme and other creeping plants, which spread themselves out so much that if you chop a part of it off it roots wherever it can find dirt to root in.
It’s okay not to have lofty dreams. You know what kind of plant you are better than anyone else.
This reminds me of a business problem called The Peter Principle that’s been written about for years but few businesses have been willing to make changes because of it
The concept is that a worker is really good at their job, so good that they clearly deserve better compensation for all they bring to the company, but business is structured so that the only way to get more money is to be promoted to a higher position. A new position comes with new job requirements, but not everyone is going to be right for those. Example: an amazing computer programmer might be useless at managing staff, but if you promote that programmer to head of the department they’ll be required to manage staff. It seems like the best thing for everyone, the company included, would be to put that employee back in their original job and let them keep the higher salary since they clearly do the job well enough to deserve it. However companies want those lower level jobs to be seen as undesirable so workers will feel upper staff deserve their higher wages. Because of this, putting the employee back in the job they’re right for is considered a demotion, so instead companies let the employee keep the upper level job they’re bad at forever or until they have just cause to fire them. Clearly the company was better off with them in the job they were good at, but the illusion of hierarchy to justify higher waged employees is more important
Just because capitalism says everyone should climb the corporate ladder doesn’t mean it’s actually the right thing for everyone
