Sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies are rewarded by positions of power
For me, seeing corruption and inequality lead to major depression, but I figured out early I didn’t want to cause harm.
What hit hard is learning deception and exploitation is baked into the system.
What is curious to me is why billionaires don’t start massive civil projects that would get their bronze statue in every state park?
Musk had several opportunities, except he then had to figure out a way to monetize it so it profited him.
They’re insanely disconnected and selfish. Yes, all of them.
Previous society’s ultra-wealthy were raised socipathic but with some form of social contract as well. Even if it was completely a classist version of the contract with them at the top, there was some form of duty to society - not necessarily the individuals in it. IOW they’d build an orphanage but exploit the hell out of individual workers. Bonus points if you enacted some large public work like libraries or schools with your name on it so people would know it was you that did it.
Now? They get fuck you money, so fuck you. Sure, they engage in philanthropy to their kid’s charity to lighten the tax burden and build their kids’ fortunes. Donate to prestigious universities to build a wing on to the campus that drives tuition even higher with new staffing and maintenance costs. Build bunker mansions for themselves. Support far right government that gives them tax breaks and other deregulation that makes them richer, because fuck you money isn’t enough.
in a system where money is the only goal, those with the most start believing they are also smarter than everyone else. mostly luck and mass hoarding opportunities at the expense of everything else. follower counts also have similar effects when they are the only goal. buy the follower system and just edit counts until satisfied. never enough. hoarding anything eventually buries the hoarder. dark is a general term for a hoarding fixation. change the goal and they will fixate on the new goal.
“Dark” personality thrives in societies
with corruption and inequalityirrelevant qualifiers
A healthy society expels those types
No, it treats them and keeps them out of positions of power. Expelling them just creates criminals.
But democracies really need to recognize the threat that sociapathic and psychopathic disorders pose to the system.
A healthy society
Name five
