Charisma and suffering,greed

[undergroundpanther]

Intimidation...

Our culture is unwilling to stop them. We furiously promote these smooth surfaced, antisocial people when they turn their talents to making money for the company. Then as CEOs and CFOs we give them extraordinary business power. In that position, the law supports them, because (as above) current law says the corporation has “the legal mandate to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, self interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences”(44).
Wrap this all around in the ruthless ideology of Social Darwinism, and nobody is safe. Democracy itself is not safe.

Democracy is something a sociopath loathes, because it represents public constraint by ‘little people’ on his autocratic power. And he doesn’t practice democracy inside corporate walls. What he often practices in the corridors and boardrooms is coercion and intimidation. Returning to Conniff’s observations: “Great fortune builders are also often great screamers the diatribe as a favorite tool…He calls meetings…at which he rages, growls and curses at his weary employees”(45).

Why is this type so successful? One possibility: because these malignant personalities are at home in the system. And the reason for that is that the system is malignant.History contains several examples of sociopaths who have flattened democracies.
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Work

We can start with the broad question. Why do we work? It is a fair question.We want to jump in: “To earn a living,” “To support the family,” “To get ahead.” - All partly true, or true for some people.
Actually the broader question stumps professional analysts. The cover story of a 2003 issue of US News and World Report titled “Why we work” wanders around for several pages and is simply evasive, but says: “Some do it for love. Others do it for money. But most of us do it because we have no other choice.” (47)That doesn’t sound like the freedom shouted up by libertarians.


http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED.htm