A coworker asked me today if I was an empath and I had no idea what that was. I asked her to explain and it was basically “someone who knows what other people are going through.” It’s way off from what I assumed it meant (I thought she said “are you in N-PATH” and I assumed it was a certification program lol). But isn’t this just someone with empathy?
My take on it is that capitalism has made it necessary to be a sociopath in order have any chance of feeling comfortable in our corporate hellscapes, making basic skills that benefit a social species in most systems, such as outwardly showing empathy, rare.