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[-] Rottcodd@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago

It's just game theory in action.

People with morals, principles, integrity, honor and/or empathy will exercise self-restraint - there are choices they will not make and courses of action they will not follow.

Those without those qualities will not be so constrained. They can and will do absolutely whatever it takes to gain whatever they might want.

So all other things being more or less equal, psychopaths actually have a competitive advantage in systems of institutionalized, hierarchical authority - governments, corporations, police departments, armed forces and so on. For all intents and purposes, those institutions reward and thus select for psychopathy.

It's sort of akin to the way that cancer spreads through an individual by outcompeting, dominating, displacing and destroying healthy cells.

And it's just as ultimately fatal, and for essentially the same reasons.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

And it's why the collective should be fighting against this trend. But in recent times billionaires came to be revered more than anything. It's changing course a bit now again, but billionaires, and people in power in general, are still being defended way more than is reasonable.

Society treats being in power and being powerful as success and something to aspire to, and we can see where that leads.

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

This should be illegal.

[-] SighBapanada@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

It's ok, I'm sure they're working 400% harder than us /s

[-] Panq@lemmy.nz 28 points 1 year ago

It's even sillier than that - 5x as much is 400% more. 399x as much is 39800% more.

[-] SighBapanada@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

You're right, I mixed it up in my comment, it's obviously time for bed for me

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

400% per job. Some of them, Elon Musk being the easiest example, are the CEO of multiple companies. If he's giving 400% more effort at each job then he's gotta be working like 2000% harder than us.

[-] vivavideri@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

WE KNOW.

what I really want to know, though, is when's the riot? I'll get a pitchfork. I'm ready. Let's go.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

They create the jerbs! They make comp'nees grow! They work'd hard to git ther! Their work is supuurrh impuurrh'tant!

[-] grayman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Every filthy stinking rich person I've known sacrificed their wife, kids, and friends to be so wealthy. Honestly, they can have it.

[-] Fraylor@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

And their morals, ethics, humanity, etc.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Something should happen to those CEOs.

Something.

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

rising CEO pay, rising food prices...

hey, that gives me a idea 🤔

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