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The Psychopath and the Corporate Ladder

I have watched several people I knew reasonably well turn from decent human beings to self aggrandising, scheming, backstabbing assholes within corporations characterized by relentless stress, and constant power struggles. The one I know best more or less throws new recruits to the wolves, then rewards survivors with respect.

What I would contend–and this would be an interedting study to do–is that vast bulk of them are becoming functional sociopaths–context dependent sociopsths to be sure–but people within which an ACTUAL moral sense has largely been eroded in constant fights for survival.

They mask this by launching recycling campaigns and posting pictures of happy people everywhere, along with motivational slogans. In my observation, the more smiling faces you see on the wall, the more nasty the place is likely to be.

Such corporations wield a huge amount of power. I will not agree with Leftists that the solution is centrslizing power with government sociopaths, but I will repeat my view that corporations should be both tax exempt–which should lessen the struggle for survival and corresponding nastiness–and prohibited from making political contributions.