Corporate scandals are depressingly common, and it’s all too easy to chalk them up to individual bad apples. Unfortunately, this simple explanation is not accurate. Guido’s research led him to write The Dark Pattern: The hidden dynamics of corporate scandals, which details the nine building blocks that lead otherwise good people to do bad things. He explains the importance of context, why psychopaths are wildly overrepresented in corporate boardrooms, and the societal structures that too often lead to egregious behaviour from companies across the globe.
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We have effective sociopathy/psychopathy screens, and we need to make them mandatory for any position of authority or that can do harm! I myself had to take such a test for a job for which l was a candidate, and l scored in the 3rd percentile, meaning that 97% of the population is more psycho than me. In fact, my score was so low that the company told me l had to have sociopath training (Dale Carnegie) if l wanted to work there. I refused...
ReplyDeleteBasic Income would make a great Plan B and go a long way towards preventing harmful behaviour and not having to take shit for non-psychopaths... David Graeber called it a corporate safe word! And as smart women everywhere have been advising forever, make sure you stash away an escape fund that absolutely no one knows about...