Simple: to strike it rich, you have to be competitive, willing to step over other people and put your own interests above theirs. I.e. in order to win, someone else has to lose. Very few people become rich without hurting other people in the process.
Therefore, rich people are generally people who don’t mind cheating, lying and hurting others. You need blunted empathy to live with yourself when you live like that.
in other words: successful people - at least successful in the capitalist eutrepreneurial sense - all have a degree of psychopathy. And less successful psychopaths with less talent become abusive middle-managers.
This holds true for other highly competitive, winner-loser activities too, such as politics.
That’s why you and I, who care about others and value leading their lives without hurting others, have boring honest 9-to-5s, generally don’t amount to much and get fucked over by the successful psychopaths. But at least we can look at ourselves in the mirror.
Simple: to strike it rich, you have to be competitive, willing to step over other people and put your own interests above theirs. I.e. in order to win, someone else has to lose. Very few people become rich without hurting other people in the process.
Therefore, rich people are generally people who don’t mind cheating, lying and hurting others. You need blunted empathy to live with yourself when you live like that.
in other words: successful people - at least successful in the capitalist eutrepreneurial sense - all have a degree of psychopathy. And less successful psychopaths with less talent become abusive middle-managers.
This holds true for other highly competitive, winner-loser activities too, such as politics.
That’s why you and I, who care about others and value leading their lives without hurting others, have boring honest 9-to-5s, generally don’t amount to much and get fucked over by the successful psychopaths. But at least we can look at ourselves in the mirror.
They can too. A “benefit” of not having empathy and emotionally understanding that their gain is the loss and labour of many others.