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Leona Helmsley’s Dignity-Stripping Moment
- Leona Helmsley smashed a tea saucer and forced a servant to clean up and beg for his job.
- Seth uses this story to show how some people derive pleasure from stripping others' dignity.
Dignity Arrived With The Modern Economy
- Dignity emerged alongside the modern economy as a counter to hierarchies of power.
- Kant framed dignity as inherent value we have simply because we are human.
Seeing Others Restores Culture
- Stripping dignity is used deliberately to control and dehumanize people in institutions.
- Granting dignity when we see each other makes culture more humane and alive.