[snip]My impression is that most who make it big in the present business atmosphere are sociopaths or psychopaths. Dangerous.
I prefer to think of it as sociopathogenic and sociopatho-telic form of social organization which gives sociopathic personalities opportunities not just to "make out" -- as they might in almost any situation (they are "survivors"...) --, but positively to *flourish*.
I think our business environment is positively begging for sociopathic exploitation.
Being "lean and mean" and "making killings" and so forth are things to brag about in public these days. You know what I mean....
I have read that, back in the 1950s, captains of iundustry wre expected to have concern for the interests of employees, the community where the company was, etc. The CEO also "only" made maybe 20 to 50 times the average employee. And money was made by selling products, etc. Again, you know what I mean.
So I don't blame it all on the sociopaths. They are merely taking advantage of an opportunity which "we" have offered them.
Certainly the notion of "Capitalism with a human face" isn't a big things theses days, or is it?
I still think the Invisible Hand is really the boot that used to appear at the beginning of Monty Python, and stomp down on the earth-ball (Erdkugel, in German).
It's like America has a big sign out: "Sociopaths! Be all that you can be here in the deregulated U.S. of A.!"
\brad mccormick
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