Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?
nutsack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sociopaths have a pretty big advantage in capitalist leadership positions over non-sociopaths. they are more likely to get there in the first place, and they will perform better.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In all leadership positions, period. Capitalist or communist. Democratic or autocratic. Does not matter, those that are not held back by their morals will have an advantage.
Crow_Thief@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In communist societies, many people who rise to power are evil, because theyre seeking their own power primarily. In capitalism, anybody who is not actively evil enough gets thrown under the bus because theyre getting in the way of profits. Communism allows it, capitalism requires it.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is the opposite. In capitalism, there is at least a chance a good person has power because of how power is distributed. There are multiple examples in the main post.
In communism, the way power is distributed ensures corrupt people raise to the top. See an amazing video “rule for rulers” by CGP gray for a simplified explanation how that corruption works.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CGP Grey refers to dictatorships in that video, not communism specifically. Marx predicted a revolution of labor that would get rid of scarcity and was never realized by the Soviet system. If you read a bit about it you’ll see that the so-called marxists never reached communism, as they kept pumping resources into the government, police and bureaucracy.
Communism. A utopian society without classes, divisions of wealth, exploitation or suffering. Members would provide what they could and receive what they need. The instruments of state, like government bureaucracies, police and military, would become unnecessary and would “wither away”.
Rules for rulers is explicitly about human behavior in heirarchy, not specifically anti communist.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/marxism/
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In communism, power is typically distributed somewhat democratically; eg every level above the lowest must be democratically elected by the previous level. Capitalism doesn’t even require that.
You can’t look at capitalist government and assume that government under communism behaves the same way.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please name which country in Europe has a government thats hasn’t been bought and paid off.
Of course, no one can. Unfortunately, that’s because capitalism is incompatible with actual democracy. Theres isn’t a country in the world whos democratic process and systems of governance hasn’t been utterly corrupted by capitalism and all that it brings with it.
If there’s a top that someone could rise to, it isn’t communism.