Imagine that you were about to accept one of three comparable jobs. You need to choose the job. Would the house your future boss lives in provide information that would assist you to choose?
The person who would be your boss for Job A lives in this house:
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The person who would be your boss for Job B lives in this house:
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The person who would be your boss for Job C lives in this house:
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I believe that there is a strong tendency to believe that the boss who has more money (which is indicated by the house in which he/she lives) is the better boss or friend or lover or whatever).
I think of this gut tendency as house-ism, which is related to car-ism, vacation-ism and school-ism (i.e., people who attended more expensive schools are perceived to be more successful). I’m not trying to be preachy. I find this tendency in myself.
We have a deep-down impulse to judge people by their things. I’m not announcing anything new here. I’m merely wondering whether we humans have any hope of ever moving on so that we judge other people by the content of their character rather than by the price of their houses.
[BTW, I took the first two photos last week in St. Louis. I took the bottom photo in Bejing, China in 1999–right around the corner was a terrific neighborhood restaurant. ]
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