The side effect many people are discussing with regard to a transparent society is that greater transparency over time will eventually expose all psychopaths. In one of my previous posts, I posted about how typically in centralized hierarchical pyramid style organizations the psychopaths tend to thrive. It is also true that extreme levels of privacy also benefits psychopaths. The question is what will society do once all psychopaths are easily identified? Will we begin to see widespread discrimination? This post will discuss a potential impact of a transparent and open society on the psychopaths among us.
Will psychopaths be exposed in privacy free flat decentralized networks?
Different industries are suspected to have more psychopaths in charge than others and in the corporate world an estimation of around 4% of CEOs are high functioning psychopaths. Lawyers also maintain a high number of psychopaths compared to other careers according to estimates.
Are companies deliberately recruiting psychopaths for certain positions?
Leading commentators on psychopathy have said that companies inadvertently attract employees who are psychopaths because of the wording of their job advertisements and their desire to engage people who are prepared to do whatever it takes to be successful in business.[5][6] However, in one case at least, an advert explicitly asked for a sales executive with psychopathic tendencies.[18] The advert title read "Psychopathic New Business Media Sales Executive Superstar! £50k - £110k".[19]
While this quote does not count as legit evidence it does show that it is at least possible that certain companies may be deliberately recruiting the most unscrupulous individuals they can find. We also know that in certain specific professions involving intelligence that questionable morality or immorality is an asset. It is very plausible at least in my opinion that psychopaths in specific positions are being sought after or highly valued but it's also difficult for anyone to know without having clear data. It is difficult to determine even a percentage of the population which are psychopaths because outside of the prison population most people are not well observed or tested in ways which can determine psychopathy with a level of clinical certainty.
As the world becomes more transparent, how is society going to react or cope with a potential reality where a larger than expected percentage of the population are exposed as psychopaths? What if it's as high as 20% of the population? How will society manage this situation even if there is complete transparency? Will society be wise about how to handle the situation or will we see the sort of witch hunts we typically see in these situations?