It's interesting - masks of sanity was an attempt to explain low level serial criminals who were unable to hold a life together. Those folks have little in com

It's interesting - masks of sanity was an attempt to explain low level serial criminals who were unable to hold a life together. Those folks have little in common with a successful but amoral ceo, or even our powertripping middle managers. For one thing they are in jail most of the time. In life you see folks with different abilities, like the ability to make people like them, or bullshit thier way out of situations. And sometimes those people also happen to be assholes. I'm not sure diagnosis is the right approach here. Maybe a better approach would be to tackle the problems, which seem to be the same workers rights issues government regulations have tried to tackle for a long time. But this is Silicon Valley where you too will be rich after IPO if you just forget all that right. This is Holywood, back in the bad old days, just without the unions. The trouble with diagnosis as a moral judgement is that it detracts from thier use in describing ill people and how we should regard them. If your boss is evil because he's a sociopath, what about jack cheating on his wife during a bipolar manic phase? Neither of them can help it. And your boss is evil. It also shows the way medical diagnosis which had a specific meaning, and applied to people we don't meet, get mapped to perfectly well people who we do. Once a child, who would have been in need of guidance a decade before, is told they are a psychopath and taken from main stream schooling, there will be little help for them.