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Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] breadsmasher 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hypothetically, if there was an omnipotent way to be sure of who is a bully vs who is being bullied and completely segregated them, would the bullied ones have a better chance? Would the two segregated groups then split into bullies and bullied again?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I don't think so. I was bullied a lot at school by a few people. But at home I had a great group of friends and we got along really well. There were no bullies. And if anyone got out of line they were quickly put in their place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It depends on what metric you're measuring by. If you want to know who will make the most money it'll probably be the bully group. If you want to know who will be less likely to end the world in nuclear fire it will be the non-bully group.