It also works for people who have enough weight to throw around so that they don't have to care about the consequences of their actions. You would think that th

It also works for people who have enough weight to throw around so that they don't have to care about the consequences of their actions. You would think that the social repercussions of doing such would be enough to alert someone that they were self-sabotaging, but the mindset has a built in mechanism that prevents this insight from occurring, namely that it allows the user to reframe such feedback as other's attempts at looting them from their rewards. It's a bit of a strange mental attractor in that respect, once a stable orbit of the assemblage of ideas takes place, it is very difficult to perturb one out of it.