• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re both right.

    Greed and psychopathy will float to the top of every system, because the greediest and most psychopathic will inevitably see the system as a game to be won.

    Ideally we shun it, but the “useful psychopath” is helpful to our own greed.

    If only we could prevent it, but I don’t have that answer.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      If only we could prevent it, but I don’t have that answer.

      There is no answer. You could literally create a policing body whose sole function was to find the greedy and psychopathic and remove them from society and that body would quickly become home to the very people its charged with removing. It takes so very few people to start the inevitable decline and its impossible to perfectly screen them out forever.

      • jandar_fett@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. This is a very defeatist attitude you seem to have. I get it, btw.