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Originally Posted by telecom_goddess
I saw that story, and basically they wasted the person's time by making them move a bunch of heavy equipment for something they should have seen the color of before. If you don't like a color, whatever, but they could have decided that before making that poor employee move EVERYTHING.
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Right but sorry if it wasn't clear I wasn't discussing that aspect but rather the idea that we can and should police what other people value. I'm on the side of "I can't tell you to not place value on something just because I don't"
For example at work I noticed one of my co-workers has a Star Wars tattoo. I enjoy watching a new Star Wars movie when it comes out. I don't read the books, comics, watch the cartoons, or really any of that other stuff I watch the movie, eat some popcorn, and move on with my life.
However I don't feel it's my place to judge this person as being a less valuable person or "entitled" for caring more about Star Wars than I do. But the story I brought up in the original post raised the interesting question that someone felt the person not liking a wheelbarrow because of Aesthetics was entitled. Not because she had the guy move a bunch of them but because she dared to have a preference on how it looked.
It seems ridiculous to me to insist that all other people only value that which we ourselves deem worthy of value.