#6: Bad Bosses
I wouldn’t really say that capitalism is designed to bring sociopaths to the top because that would imply that someone deliberately set out to create a system with that specific problem, and that’s just historically not true. However, it’s absolutely true that people with sociopathic tendencies tend to rise to the top in the business world.
A study a few years ago found that in the upper ranks of the corporate world, up to 21% of people had psychopathic tendencies—significantly higher than the general population – and, even more disturbing, an even higher number than people in prison.
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