One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath

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Huffington Post article…

My initial reaction was that this one out of ten number is far too low.  I think it is over 50% that are psycho/sociopaths…

Absolutely love this part: “A financial psychopath can present as a perfect well-rounded job candidate, CEO, manager, co-worker, and team member because their destructive characteristics are practically invisible”.


Furthermore, “about 4 percent of all executives are psychopaths — and that their relative lack of scruples is what helps them excel in business.”  This is just rich.  Even that percentage should be much higher.  I would actually go even further and say that the lack of scruples/morals/ethics are a prerequisite for some in senior management as well.  They say certain things but rarely practice what they preach.  The following comes to mind…

It’s why some make the conscious decision to exit stage left from that 2nd floor perch at most major corporations… because believe it or not, there are some of us who do not believe in shitting all over the rank and file.

There’s a famous Japanese proverb, 罰が当たる or bachi ga ataru; where bachi is retribution and ataru is strike.  In much easier to understand terms, it can be loosely thought of as, “what comes around, goes around”.  Those who play the game too long end up getting whacked back in some way.  I like to think of it as sort of like the principle of non-locality in physics (where there is a direct influence of one object on another, distant object).

The players on Wall Street + corporate executives can keep playing their ego driven games all they want, but each time they screw the innocent bystanders (like the working class), the situation outside only gets worse.  Eventually, a full force day of reckoning is going to ensue and leave no prisoners, because I’m a firm believer that if you keep messing around like this, eventually, the shit will hit the proverbial fan.  2008 was just a warning shot over the bow.  The debt problems facing various country’s is just another.  Not addressing the problems at the root only makes the crash and fall that much bigger.  And to fix all of the collateral damage in the future will be extremely costly.

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