Psychopaths Are Ruining Everything
And We’re Not Doing Anything About It
Nicole FurlanI remember learning about psychopaths and sociopaths in abnormal psychology in college, and immediately thinking, wow, no wonder why the world is so messed up.
I also remember being very unsurprised in 2016 when I read the study that found that 21% of corporate executives are psychopathic. For comparison, that’s the same percentage for prison inmates. Roughly 1% of the general population exhibits psychopathic behavior.
Psychopaths lack the ability to experience feelings of remorse, guilt, or empathy for others. They have excessively high self-approval and a nearly complete inability to form genuine emotional attachments to others. They manipulate the artificial relationships they do form to exploit others for their benefit. They’re superficially charming and generally appear normal to others, particularly due to their ability to maintain the appearance of a normal work and family life.
If you’re part of the working class, I’m sure you understand how these characteristics would make someone incredibly effective at climbing the corporate ladder. But if that person ends up in a position of immense power—in the government, for example—the decisions they make on a daily basis are incredibly high impact. Someone who also lacks empathy for others is more likely to value personal gain above all when making decisions, and if those decisions are made without considering their impacts from an ethical perspective, large numbers of people can experience immense suffering.
In the United States, the pandemic has accelerated the evolution of our system into late-stage capitalism. The ruling elite—made up of corporate executives, some who even made their way into our government—have fully manipulated the situation for their benefit, bailing themselves out (again) while having no empathy for the working class, ignoring their desperate cries for financial stability. Now, large numbers of people are experiencing unprecedented suffering.
It is time for the working class to realize our power and leverage, particularly at this moment in time. Our lives literally depend on it.
", 11 | "links": [ 12 | { 13 | "url": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-psychopaths-australian-study-finds", 14 | "title": "The Telegraph: 1 in 5 CEOs are psychopaths, study finds" 15 | }, 16 | { 17 | "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9828914/Why-your-boss-could-easily-be-a-psychopath.html", 18 | "title": "The Telegraph: Why your boss could easily be a psychopath" 19 | }, 20 | { 21 | "url": "https://amzn.to/2Wi0k15 ", 22 | "title": "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak" 23 | } 24 | ] 25 | }, 26 | { 27 | "url": "united-states-hurdle-to-universal-basic-income", 28 | "title": "The Elite Hurdle to Universal Basic Income in the United States", 29 | "description": "The ruling elites' oppression of the United States working class is both the biggest reason for and the biggest barrier to Universal Basic Income", 30 | "image": "united-states-hurdle-to-universal-basic-income.jpg", 31 | "image_credit": "Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash", 32 | "date": "2020-07-13", 33 | "content": 34 | "Since Andrew Yang brought the idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) into mainstream conversation during the Democratic primary election of 2020, the policy position has gained lots of attention. Many view it as an opportunity to decrease poverty and homelessness, support entrepreneurs and socially beneficial members of society, provide an off-ramp from bull-shit jobs, and mitigate the effects of economic stressors like technological automation and crises like the coronavirus pandemic. Many view it as an enormous, unrealistic cost and worry that it disincentivizes people to work.
The problem I often see ignored, even by many on the Left, is that for the ruling elite class, UBI is a threat to their control over the working class, whose oppression makes their lifestyles possible. If the working class stays hungry, quite literally, we’ll never rise up. I don’t know about you, but I would be protesting in the street every day if I could financially afford to. The list of reasons to protest is certainly long enough.
The coronavirus pandemic, and the high likelihood that pandemics will continue happening, has created a strong case for UBI all on its own. Other countries have implemented UBI and have avoided the economic devastation we’re currently experiencing. However, the United States government and ruling elites, two groups which overlap greatly, have mostly ignored cries from the working class for financial reassurance. The U.S. government even actively worked against the working class citizens, who they swore to represent, to direct financial relief in the form of taxpayer dollars directly into the pockets of the ruling elites.
For the U.S. working class, our systemic corruption and oppression by the ruling elites creates what I think is the strongest case for UBI. It’s the best shot we have at avoiding being pulverized by our capitalist system, which the pandemic has accelerated into late-stage capitalism. But it is that very corruption and oppression that has created a country where UBI has absolutely no chance of being enacted.
Though the Overton window on UBI may have shifted, only major systemic change would allow the actual policies to be put into place to enable UBI for U.S. citizens. It is time for the working class to realize our power and leverage, particularly at this moment in time. Our lives literally depend on it.
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Nicole FurlanI remember learning about psychopaths and sociopaths in abnormal psychology in college, and immediately thinking, wow, no wonder why the world is so messed up.
I also remember being very unsurprised in 2016 when I read the study that found that 21% of corporate executives are psychopathic. For comparison, that’s the same percentage for prison inmates. Roughly 1% of the general population exhibits psychopathic behavior.
Psychopaths lack the ability to experience feelings of remorse, guilt, or empathy for others. They have excessively high self-approval and a nearly complete inability to form genuine emotional attachments to others. They manipulate the artificial relationships they do form to exploit others for their benefit. They’re superficially charming and generally appear normal to others, particularly due to their ability to maintain the appearance of a normal work and family life.
If you’re part of the working class, I’m sure you understand how these characteristics would make someone incredibly effective at climbing the corporate ladder. But if that person ends up in a position of immense power—in the government, for example—the decisions they make on a daily basis are incredibly high impact. Someone who also lacks empathy for others is more likely to value personal gain above all when making decisions, and if those decisions are made without considering their impacts from an ethical perspective, large numbers of people can experience immense suffering.
In the United States, the pandemic has accelerated the evolution of our system into late-stage capitalism. The ruling elite—made up of corporate executives, some who even made their way into our government—have fully manipulated the situation for their benefit, bailing themselves out (again) while having no empathy for the working class, ignoring their desperate cries for financial stability. Now, large numbers of people are experiencing unprecedented suffering.
It is time for the working class to realize our power and leverage, particularly at this moment in time. Our lives literally depend on it.
The ruling elites' oppression of the United States working class is both the biggest reason for and the biggest barrier to Universal Basic Income
Nicole FurlanSince Andrew Yang brought the idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) into mainstream conversation during the Democratic primary election of 2020, the policy position has gained lots of attention. Many view it as an opportunity to decrease poverty and homelessness, support entrepreneurs and socially beneficial members of society, provide an off-ramp from bull-shit jobs, and mitigate the effects of economic stressors like technological automation and crises like the coronavirus pandemic. Many view it as an enormous, unrealistic cost and worry that it disincentivizes people to work.
The problem I often see ignored, even by many on the Left, is that for the ruling elite class, UBI is a threat to their control over the working class, whose oppression makes their lifestyles possible. If the working class stays hungry, quite literally, we’ll never rise up. I don’t know about you, but I would be protesting in the street every day if I could financially afford to. The list of reasons to protest is certainly long enough.
The coronavirus pandemic, and the high likelihood that pandemics will continue happening, has created a strong case for UBI all on its own. Other countries have implemented UBI and have avoided the economic devastation we’re currently experiencing. However, the United States government and ruling elites, two groups which overlap greatly, have mostly ignored cries from the working class for financial reassurance. The U.S. government even actively worked against the working class citizens, who they swore to represent, to direct financial relief in the form of taxpayer dollars directly into the pockets of the ruling elites.
For the U.S. working class, our systemic corruption and oppression by the ruling elites creates what I think is the strongest case for UBI. It’s the best shot we have at avoiding being pulverized by our capitalist system, which the pandemic has accelerated into late-stage capitalism. But it is that very corruption and oppression that has created a country where UBI has absolutely no chance of being enacted.
Though the Overton window on UBI may have shifted, only major systemic change would allow the actual policies to be put into place to enable UBI for U.S. citizens. It is time for the working class to realize our power and leverage, particularly at this moment in time. Our lives literally depend on it.
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Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Type: Persistent Cookies
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Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
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Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to enable Us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to You. These Cookies use information about your browsing history to group You with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with Our permission, third party advertisers can place Cookies to enable them to show adverts which We think will be relevant to your interests while You are on third party websites.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy.
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us by email at info@nicolefurlan.com
Last updated: June 22, 2020