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Facebook's hiring process has a tendency to benefit people who are good at presenting themselves a certain way and who can perform well when under pressure... O

Facebook's hiring process has a tendency to benefit people who are good at presenting themselves a certain way and who can perform well when under pressure... One group which has particularly benefited from Facebook's hiring process are psychopaths. I'm sure that there are good people working for Facebook but when I think about all the people I knew who ended up at Facebook, they all had psychopathic tendencies. If the company is full of such people, of course there is no incentive to fix problems.

rtx 6y ago
Psychopaths are born that way, no reason to pull them down. If they can add value to the society I am happy about it.
- cryptica 6y ago
  I agree but the problem is that this characteristic that they have doesn't add any value to society (it takes away value) and they shouldn't be given preferential treatment. Psychopathy only helps the individual who has it, it does not help society at all. This is a myth. The most successful capitalist countries (in terms of average quality of life for all citizens) are those in which people have an altruistic mindset. We also need to account for the evolutionary consequences of selecting for psychopathy. If everyone ends up becoming a psychopath and is entirely focused on capturing value for themselves, who is going to be left to actually create value? Society would collapse into a lawless, violent, cannibalistic mess. Society is held together by altruism. It can function with a small number of wolves at the top and many sheeps at the bottom. But in a world with only wolves, the wolves start eating each other. Wolves are only useful for population control, not value creation. That said, society doesn't need to be made up of sheep and wolves (as is the current trend). We could select for balanced free-thinking individuals.
cryptica 6y ago
Also, with all the negative media which Facebook is getting these days, it would attract more psychopaths. Psychopaths want to control people, so Facebook is the perfect company where they can realize their ambitions.

rtx 6y ago

Psychopaths are born that way, no reason to pull them down. If they can add value to the society I am happy about it.

cryptica 6y ago
I agree but the problem is that this characteristic that they have doesn't add any value to society (it takes away value) and they shouldn't be given preferential treatment. Psychopathy only helps the individual who has it, it does not help society at all. This is a myth. The most successful capitalist countries (in terms of average quality of life for all citizens) are those in which people have an altruistic mindset. We also need to account for the evolutionary consequences of selecting for psychopathy. If everyone ends up becoming a psychopath and is entirely focused on capturing value for themselves, who is going to be left to actually create value? Society would collapse into a lawless, violent, cannibalistic mess. Society is held together by altruism. It can function with a small number of wolves at the top and many sheeps at the bottom. But in a world with only wolves, the wolves start eating each other. Wolves are only useful for population control, not value creation. That said, society doesn't need to be made up of sheep and wolves (as is the current trend). We could select for balanced free-thinking individuals.

cryptica 6y ago

Also, with all the negative media which Facebook is getting these days, it would attract more psychopaths. Psychopaths want to control people, so Facebook is the perfect company where they can realize their ambitions.