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Top level executives very often lean to psychopthic tendencies than your average worker bees at corporations. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-... . You have to be a cold person to do a lot of what they do or at the very least have a very strong conviction that what you're doing is for some greater good (good chance it's yourself). I also suspect that ratio increases the larger the corporation.

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I don't think there's more psychopathic tendencies in those positions because it's a necessity to being a successful leader. I think a lot of people crave power, and with a disregard for morals and other people in general, it's easier to attain it. Good people also make good leaders, they just need more luck and hard work to get there without kicking on everyone across their path.

I think another way to put it is that organizations created by sociopaths tend to be set up for sociopaths. There is also the possibility we could create organizations set up for other kinds of people to succeed.

> There is also the possibility we could create organizations set up for other kinds of people to succeed.

“My exciting insight came in 2001 when I read Bernard Lietaer’s book, The Future of Money. It helped me see the ways our monetary system has shaped our culture and even our sense of humanity. That’s when I realized the things we had invented (in my company) were in fact new kinds of currencies, and that currencies are the main tools we use to shape patterns in community and culture. They are the DNA of our social organisms.”

- Arthur Brock [1]

[1] https://www.artbrock.com/2014/11/21/designing-social-flows-c...

Another way to put it is that once you have one sociapth/whatever setting up an organization/country/community and won a few battles the infection quickly spreads and eventually people secretly accept that only a sociopath/whatever looks like a good leader (so that their interests can be protected and their conscience untouched).

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