According a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population. But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent.
source: YouTube
The above intro for today's post was taken from an April 8, 2019 article from CNBC; athough oficially "CNBC" is an acronym for the "Consumer News and Business Channel", the attentive reader has already noticed that "CNBC" is also an acronym of this post's title. It's funny then, that the same news outlet that gave us the article about the high percentage of narcissists among executives, is the same that now regularly hosts billionaires crying about the harm done to them by the government.
Spotting a psychopath
Narcissism involves an unrealistic sense of grandiosity and superiority, manifested in the form of vanity, self-admiration and delusions of talent. Here are the main characteristics of narcissistic and toxic bosses:
1. They often crave validation and recognition from others. This is primarily because their self-esteem is high but fragile. Bosses who constantly show off are probably desperate for others’ admiration.
2. They tend to be self-centered. This means they’re generally less interested in others and have deficits in empathy. For this reason, they are rarely found displaying any genuine consideration for people other than themselves.
3. They have high levels of entitlement. Narcissists commonly behave as if they deserve certain privileges or enjoy higher status than their peers enjoy.
source: CNBC
I really appreciate that there exist studies to proof something that we all can see and figure out by just using common sense: capitalism rewards selfishness, so it's to be expected that the most self-centered individuals float to the top in this system. The finance-branch of the NBC corporation, that's in turn owned by Capcom, often hosts CEO's and investors who further the narrative of capitalism's core characteristics and misconceptions, like the idea of the self-made man who rejects the left's "victim narrative", pulled himself up by his own bootstraps and made it to the top by mere adherence to the behavior of "homo economicus". And that's a good thing because capitalism promotes the idea that some invisible hand would create some just distribution of wealth if only we all behave like self-interested calculation agents. Fortunately we don't, but unfortunately this means we get sociopaths and psychopaths as our political and economical leaders.
To me it's hilarious that these individuals make statements like "poverty is a choice", accuse leftists of having and promoting a "victim mentality" among those poor and other systemically wronged groups, but then appear on television to complain about how they're robbed from their millions by a government that taxes them and then distributes that money among the undeserving, among the people who lost their job to the pandemic. Or, that's now, but usually they lose their jobs because these sociopath "self-made men" want to become even richer by moving their production facilities to low wage countries and short stocks on Wall Street. We all are the product of our environments, and capitalism is the environment that produces sorry excuses for human beings, like billionaire investor Sam Zell in the below linked video, that are given a podium on the Crying Narcissistic Billionaire Channel...
Billionaire Complains About Survival Checks On CNBC
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