Reply #60: It's not strange at all when you consider that a high percentage of

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the higher-up corporate executives are psychopaths.

Psychopaths are people with antisocial personalities. Their characteristics are:
people with defective consciences, charming personalities used to disarm others
in order to deceive and use them for their own benefit. They can also lie with
impunity, are greedy, selfish, inordinately aggressive and love to have others
under their control. They have no empathy for those in need, pain or misery.
Some of them are also sadists. Nothing bothers them, as long as they can
benefit or profit in one way or another. In a sense they can't be blamed for
being the way they are. Can a sick person be blamed for being sick? These
people are mentally ill.

There are some professions to which psychopaths feel especially attracted --
corporate executives and politicians -- because these are the exact places in
which their drives can best be met: their need for power over others and
insatiable greed. They, of course, can be found in all professions. About 4%
of the general population is psychopathic, but I'm willing to bet that more
than 4% are found in these two professions. Not that all of them are psychopaths.
Many of them are decent people.

In any business company, who are the ones most likely to get promoted? Those
who make the most money for the company. And those who are the most ruthless
in their business dealings, and are smart enough to get away with it, are
the ones most likely to make the most money and climb their way up the corporate
ladder.

I think we have too many psychopaths holding high positions -- both in the
business world and in government. That, I believe, is why our world is in the
chaotic situation we now are having.

We've got to have fewer psychopaths in positions of power and responsibility.
If we don't, we'll be sunk. It seems we already are half way there.