Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not just tech, but leadership positions in general.
Short answer is that the traits you need to climb the ladder have significant overlap with the traits of legit psychopathy.
Bacano@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To add to this, there’s been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.
My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.
There’s a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Any good books or other articles on this? I’d be legitimately interested.
The more money I make or the better off I am, I actually just end up feeling more guilty and giving more away. Frankly, one only needs so much, after that if you can improve the quality of life of those around you it makes everything better.
Bacano@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I feel you. To echo your last sentence, there’s that old study of money leading to increased happiness but only up to a certain point (I think it was like 75k USD pre-covid)
scientificamerican.com/…/how-wealth-reduces-compa…
psychologicalscience.org/…/rich-less-empathetic-t…
0x0@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Needs vs wants… Power corrupts.