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Judging from all of human history.. 'those with wealth' tend to not be the conscientious type. edit: Because, they are insulated from the bad repercussions of
by everyone 9y ago
Judging from all of human history.. 'those with wealth' tend to not be the conscientious type.
edit: Because, they are insulated from the bad repercussions of their harmful policies.
Eg. Trafigura polluting the shit out of Ivory coast and poisoning people there. The CEO doesnt live there, he drinks bottled water and lives somewhere else in a gated compound.
Making those destructive choices makes things better for them so they keep making them over and over.
If a CEO made a conscientious choice then it would most likely be at the expense of short term profit, which would diminish the extent of his power, sort of self-selecting himself out of the decision making pool.
- tomxor 9y agoI agree, but I find it hard to beleive that isolation alone is enough to make them so unempathetic. I can only assume it has something to do with the human capacity to lie to one self, otherwise even acknowledging the truth would just be too uncomfortable. Makes me imagine some weird distopian future where all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug to prevent crimes against humanity :P
- jcranendonk 9y ago> all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug But who would force them?
- tomxor 9y agoWell it's a sci-fi distopian future so there would be some twisted pseudo dictatorship of course ... except for the one guy at the top who exempts himself from the drug. Ok this is basically "equilibrium" with a different brain mod isn't it :P
- tim333 9y agoOur future AI overlords, I imagine.