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• Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that’s including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The presence of narcissism and sociopathy in the C-suite is due to selection bias, specifically for people with “bold” personality traits.

    • pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28406658/
    • www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0191886919307007
    • scientificamerican.com/…/psychopathic-tendencies-…
    • marytaylorandassociates.com/…/the-existence-of-so…

    When you layer masking on top of that, you get a skilled individual that can navigate a lot of business situations. This all happens because they’re incredibly useful traits for making money, above all else. Ethics be damned.

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