People with a very high sense of responsability towards others generally avoid taking on responsabilities were their own mistakes might cause problems to others - it’s a “weight on the shoulders”.
People who seek power, on the other hand, generally tend to do it because of perceived social prestige or what they can do with that power.
This is a well known phenomenon: for example there are tons of sayings about how (political) power should give to those who don’t want it, and there’s actually a Harvard Business Review article from over a decade ago about how they investigated this in companies and found that companies where the CEO unexpectedly got the position rather than seek it, in average outperformed the rest of their industry.
Speculater@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Power hungry people seeking validation without real-world obligations.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
And no real power either.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
They have the power to shape information.