Have you ever seen a selfish person who “gets away with everything” finally pay the price?
A lot of us know this person. And have for decades.
They present a really nice facade. Something like: good looking, charming, fun to be around (they attract fun people and fun times) and have money. They are a natural magnate for people.
They are also pathologically selfish. All the classic traits. They place their wants and desires above relationships (romantic, friendships, professional); are experts at subtle manipulation and negotiation; and only do what they want to do, where they want to do it, when they want to do it.
And yet they remain a “great guy“ in the eyes of those who fail to see beyond the facade.
One of the many ways their selfishness manifests itself is if they are on point to do something (or it’s painfully obvious that they should do something) that they do not want to do, they will drop the ball and that ball will stay dropped until someone else picks it up or it becomes irrelevant. There is always someone or something that steps in to save them. Sometimes they act grateful, sometimes they don’t say anything and sometimes they laugh it off. Importantly, there is never a downside consequence.
You know if you did what they did, just once, you’d be banned, excommunicated, written off and forgotten about.
Have you ever seen an instance where this person FINALLY paid the price (FAFO’d)?