• ApeNo1@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Lots of interesting articles and research talking about the problem of many CEOs exhibiting psychopathic traits but it being accepted. For example.

    https://fortune.com/2021/06/06/corporate-psychopaths-business-leadership-csr/

    “Our culture also glorifies and rewards successful leaders who may lie somewhere on the spectrum of psychopathy or who, if not actually psychopathic, nevertheless display traits that psychopathic individuals frequently have. The problem, of course, is that while psychopaths may have a lot of charisma and creativity, they may also lack, as already mentioned, socially important qualities such as empathy and morality.”

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      9 months ago

      Yeah this is why there is so much suffering under capitalism.

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        9 months ago

        The key thing is that it’s not our culture, it’s the material interests of the rich that elevate psychopaths to power. The culture follows.

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          This country was founded on rich assholes who didnt like the monarchy. It’s always been about greed. You think the starving plebs gave a fuck about tea in a harbor?

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              Yeah, it does exist elsewhere; I think the point they’re making is that it is apparent the United States was founded specifically for the interests of landowning (and slave owning) rich people. While not unique globally, the USA was probably the first country intentionally founded to protect the capitalist instead of the nobility or a religious group.

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            rich assholes who didnt like the monarchy.

            Rich assholes who felt the monarchy was taking their money. All talk of justification aside, it’s entirely possible they took this stance simply because they were 3000 miles away, with a dangerous ocean crossing required to close that gap, and felt that made ignoring the tax bill worth the risk.

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      9 months ago

      Yup. Sadly, having broken moral compass and lacking empathy can be obscenely profitable in the right circles. I honestly think that’s all that is propping these guys up anymore.

      Also, we used to attribute “boldness” to psycopaths/sociopaths but it turns out that’s bunk and they’re really “just mean”. So the apologists out there have, yet again, one less thing to work with. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202201/no-there-are-no-benefits-psychopathy

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      9 months ago

      And as we saw with the “My 0th Blender Model (because we all know your first model is a somewhat decent donut),” these people have no creativity.