• greyscaleBanned from communityA
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      Because we don’t promote those with worthwhile talents, the grifters find their way in and fail upwards.

      • binux@sh.itjust.works
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        Partly that, and partly the fact that the system rewards psychopathic attitudes and a machiavellian willingness to stomp on whoever you have to in order to get your way. It’s the reason why CEOs and executives exude such a disproportionate level of anti-social behaviour.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      They wouldn’t be CEO unless they had the parasitic impulse. If they wanted to make things or facilitate people there are way better positions to do that from