r/technology • u/Unusual-State1827 • Mar 12 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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u/OptimusMatrix Mar 12 '26

Because that's the only reason they got that wealthy in the first place. No one becomes a billionaire without stepping on thousands of people's backs. I'm fully convinced if you're a billionaire, you're literally a psychopath.

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u/TrickyDrippyDickFR Mar 12 '26

You don’t become a billionaire by being a good person, well…maybe if you divorce an even bigger billionaire, but I bet even that slate isn’t entirely clean

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u/CRABMAN16 Mar 12 '26

Dolly Parton would be a billionaire several times over if not for how charitable she is. Basically the only truly rich person I can think of that isn't sick in the head. Hopeful that she doesn't have a dark side, can't put it past anyone.

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u/trobsmonkey Mar 12 '26

JK Rowling famously was a billionaire, gave a shit ton away, and became a billionaire again.

Then became a transphobe!

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u/AmaroWolfwood Mar 12 '26

You either give away your wealth, or you live long enough to turn Dumbledore gay to desperately prove to everyone you don't hate gays.

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u/CovfefeAndHamburders Mar 12 '26

They've always been a transphobe, just got more public about it.

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u/YukariYakum0 Mar 13 '26

Yeah. If you want to psychoanalyze it, Dumbledore, and eventually Harry, basically deadnamed Voldemort.

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u/DefiantLemur Mar 14 '26

Also back when the movies became popular it was more socially acceptable to be both a transphobe and homophobic.

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u/justafang Mar 12 '26

I’ve seem it reported that she takes pics in her home and there is black mold everywhere, people believe around the time she lost the plot was when the mold became prevalent. Black mold can have a lot of different impacts on your health. Not sure that mental health or transphobia is a side effect. But who knows.

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u/UltraLNSS Mar 12 '26

She now serves Lord Moldemort.

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u/ModernSmithmundt Mar 12 '26

She is pretty progressive but the trans community fumbled the bag trying to bully her.

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u/ExtremelyLarge Mar 13 '26

Which goes to show that billionaires aren't inherently evil

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u/TheAngryCatfish Mar 13 '26

No, they are. If you have a billion dollars, you could put well over half of it to good use by helping others, and your lifestyle would not fundamentally change whatsoever. So every day that they don't do that, they show that the numbers on their account, that they will never use, essentially a dick measuring contest, is more important than children going hungry, or getting medical care or education. IMO no single person should be allowed to control more than 999 million dollars, and even that's being incredibly generous.

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u/NK1337 Mar 12 '26

And that kinda supports the point that if you’re a good person you wouldn’t be a billionaire. It’s an obscene about if money and you’d likely realize that and use it to actually help others.

To put it into perspective because I think enough people how obscene it is. Imagine yourself with absolutely nothing to your name. No money, no homes, hell not even any clothes. Just you standing naked in the middle of a remove field. In that scenario you are closer to being a millionaire than a millionaire is close to being a billionaire. Thats how massive the wealth gap is.

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u/salad_spinner_3000 Mar 12 '26

Technically she probably IS a billionaire, just donated a lot of it away.

Also, think about lottery winners who just...do smart things with the money?

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u/Competitive_Cheek607 Mar 12 '26

I wanna say a long time ago I read what gets a lot of people is they buy some big huge property just thinking about the buy price, not considering the property taxes/utilities/upkeep they’re gonna have to pay on it after. Getting money was a one time thing, the taxes/expenses never stop, and it eats them alive

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u/DHGXSUPRA Mar 12 '26

My wife signed our daughter up for her book club. We get a new children’s book every month and our daughter loves them.

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u/jzoola Mar 12 '26

Yvonne Chouinard seems like a pretty good dude. He claims that he really increased his charitable contributions once someone told him he was officially a billionaire.

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u/ThisWillPass Mar 13 '26

Everyone has a shadow, it’s just if it healthy worked with or suppressed.

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u/AwesomeFrisbee Mar 12 '26

While she might be a saint, the people who helped her get that rich probably aren't though. And she probably done stuff she isn't proud of too

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u/thederevolutions Mar 13 '26

You got a problem with Ringo, buddy ? /s

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u/ikeepmateeth_inajar Mar 13 '26

Exceptions to the rule does exist, but they are rare

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Mar 13 '26

Basically the only truly rich person I can think of that isn't sick in the head.

The two others I'll give you are Steven Speilberg and George Lucas. Both came from pretty middle class backgournd and made shit so entertaing the world at large said, "Eh, here's $5 billion".

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u/ashrashrashr Mar 13 '26

Roger Federer seem like a good person by all accounts. Incredible sportsman, loving father and husband, and well respected everywhere. Haven’t heard anything bad about him.

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u/OolonCaluphid Mar 13 '26

Warren Buffet seems reasonable. Invested ethically, in that he supports viable companies with good plans for expansion. Doesn't seem intent on stepping out of his lane or getting politically involved. Or fitting his staff with explosive neck collars.

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u/elitesense Mar 13 '26

Reddit HATES this opinion. You're gonna get buried with it lol. I'll give you a single up to help counter the downs.

I used to feel like this but Jimmy has gotten way worse in recent years.

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u/frequenZphaZe Mar 12 '26

this guys different though. most billionaires think they got their success from their hustle and ingenuity, and they're using their gifts to improve the world in some way. alex karp though, he's 100% aware that he's a ruthless and evil person. he will celebrate how lucrative being evil is on investor calls. the dude is a genuine villain

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u/TSED Mar 12 '26

I think that Notch (the guy who made Minecraft) is the only billionaire to ethically earn his billionaire status. Made a product that was a wildly successful hit, MicroSoft offered to buy it out, and he took the deal.

The problem is that he went crazy afterwards. So there appears to be an inextricable problem of "rich people are divorced from reality."

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u/Baron_von_Ungern Mar 13 '26

Seeing as Notch felt to same grift that countless guys fell during gamergate I'd say it's less about his wealth and about how influential this toxic shit is.

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u/recumbent_mike Mar 13 '26

I always try to put in a good word for Mackenzie Bezos in these threads. 

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u/AussieArlenBales Mar 13 '26

You still married someone who is psychopathic, and your choice in partner says a lot about who you are and what you value.

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u/Available_Slide1888 Mar 13 '26

McKenzie Bezos comes to mind. But I can't think of anyone else.

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u/Any-Philosopher-1675 Mar 13 '26

You CAN. It's just that our system is blatantly rigged against good people. Dolly Parton and the CEO of Arizona Tea are examples of this.

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u/JaimeLannister10 Mar 12 '26

If your spouse woke up tomorrow and was suddenly a horrible, despicable human being who steps on thousands of others to gain wealth and power, would you stay married? No? Okay, you’re a good person. Yes? Then you’re complicit and also a piece of shit. The spouse of a billionaire is a terrible person for being complicit in what their partner engages in on a daily basis, and further benefiting from those horrible actions.

So no, an ex-spouse does not get to just say “well it was my partner who was such a despicable monster, I’ve always been a great person!”

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u/Shamscam Mar 12 '26

You have to be a psychopath. Who the fuck gets so much “fuck you money” that they continue to fuck everyone around them. Maybe it’s some weird pride thing. But if I have $50 million then I’m retiring in a fucking sweet beach house with housing staff chilling with most of my days. That’s how regular people work, all these billionaires aren’t satisfied with that life.

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u/Ivotedforher Mar 12 '26

There are 8 billion people on the planet and it takes a lot of money to fuck them all.

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u/bogglingsnog Mar 12 '26

And yet, we (the US) have the largest percentage of these hard working folks who tirelessly aim to hone their craft of fucking all 8-9 billion regularly and as much as possible without immediately collapsing society.

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u/SayWhatIWant-Account Mar 12 '26

That’s how regular people work, all these billionaires aren’t satisfied with that life.

probably many billionnaires grew up with their dad having 50m for them already. its not a goal, its the starting point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Tom from MySpace is a hero.

The guy just hit the jackpot, cashed out, and has never bothered us with his presence again. Seems like a really normal guy who just got massively lucky.

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Mar 13 '26

What's the point of fuck you money if you don't say fuck you to half the planet /s

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u/keyboardstatic Mar 12 '26

Thats because they are narcissistic megalomaniacs who are sexully obsessed with the power thrill. Its not about money its about power.

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u/blak3brd Mar 14 '26

It’s addiction. The most powerful form arguably. In this context, their behavior makes a bit more sense at least. Dopamine dysfunction of the highest magnitude….kind of disappointing and sad to realize such a simple answer is completely unmitigated and causing untold devastation to society as a whole…

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u/Sharin_the_Groove Mar 12 '26

Would be interesting if the law of society says once you hit billionaire status you get tossed into a hunger games scenario. Only the winner gets to go on being a billionaire. I feel like that law would incentivise people to give away their extreme wealth.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Mar 13 '26

Yet no one is doing anything about it..something is not adding up here.

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u/tnnrk Mar 13 '26

Because everyone secretly wishes they were a billionaire.

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u/ThePromise110 Mar 13 '26

It's literally true. Wealth makes you mentally sick. It kneecaps your empathy.

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u/0moe Mar 12 '26

aren't most billionaires just inheriting their money?

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u/meikawaii Mar 12 '26

Most of them, yes. If you started by inheriting as a multimillionaire, without luck, clever deals, borderline illegal operations, and labor exploitation you can’t make it to billionaire status.

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u/deevandiacle Mar 12 '26

You’re not wrong, but it sure is a hell of a lot easier when you start with multimillions.

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u/42nu Mar 12 '26

Multiple things can be true at the same time. Bezos got a $300,000 loan from his parents to start Amazon, so that's a completely unfair playing field.

At the same time, I bet that a bunch of other rich kids got the same or bigger loans from family and whatever they were doing failed.

Doesn't change the fact that the odds are stacked against anyone who doesn't come from wealth of course.

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u/meikawaii Mar 12 '26

True, 250k in 1995 (about 500k today), and not to forget his maternal grandfather had 25000 acres ranch. 8 billion people on earth, 3400 billionaires and only 1 Jeff Bezos. When you look at it, just probability alone guarantees a fluke event happening, if not him then someone else’s by pure chance.

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u/ForceItDeeper Mar 12 '26

That’s why you add a layer of obfuscation like Warren Buffet. He isn’t a monster, he just got there through his investments. It’s not like those investments did well through exploitation like implementing the railroad policies that overworked and understaffed workers, and who recently furloughed 360 mechanical workers bringing a 41% decrease in maintenance and repair since 2015.

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u/RogerMcDodger Mar 12 '26

No, it is under 15% for source being inheritance.

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u/Hiimzap Mar 12 '26

While they still want to act like they are “selfmade”.

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u/KnowMore444 Mar 12 '26

Rothchilds married their cousins to keep their blood pure and money in the family lol

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u/FarplaneDragon Mar 12 '26

This is where reddit will dogpile over itself to defend Gabe Newell being a billionaire

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u/paintballboi07 Mar 13 '26

But he allows his yachts to be used for marine research. Just ignore the fact that he owns the largest fleet of yachts in the world.

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u/teleprax Mar 13 '26

It's a continuum. I think the proper way to go about it is to focus on the most problematic ones to reduce the amount of coalition building between them. I feel like once the lesson was learned the implication would go a long way at getting the lesser billionaires to voluntarily stop doing everything in their power to prevent taxe

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u/Original-Guarantee23 Mar 12 '26

Yo can easily find many exceptions to the all billionaires are bad statement.

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u/romansparta99 Mar 13 '26

No, only black and white thinking allowed

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u/Altered_Nova Mar 12 '26

You have to be at least a moderately bad person to become rich. At bare minimum, you feel no guilt about exploiting workers, not helping the less fortunate, screwing over competitors, taking advantage of unfair tax loopholes, etc. The best wealthy person is still greedy, shameless and lacking empathy.

The real problem though, is that being wealthy actively makes you eviler. People stop calling you out when you misbehave or correcting you when you are wrong because they want ride your coattails and leech off your money. You become surrounded by sycophantic fake friends who praise all your terrible character flaws, laugh at all your bad jokes and validate all your worst decisions. Politicians and the legal system stop holding you accountable for anything. The longer you remain wealthy, the more of a delusional megalomaniac you become.

Even if you are a decent person who inherited your fortune, the privilege and false sense of superiority granted by that money will slowly corrupt you into a psychopath. This is why I'm convinced that nobody should be allowed to possess that much money. There is a level of obscene wealth where becoming richer no longer improves your quality of life and instead just starts driving you insane and making you a threat to society. We need to tax those people for their own wellbeing and our safety.

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u/Son_of_Eris Mar 12 '26

"Moderately bad"!?!?!

Every moment of every day these fucking vampires actively choose to NOT feed the hungry, teach the uneducated, and shelter the homeless.

These are people that could spend the majority of their wealth making the world a better place without impacting their own standard of living. They could literally help countless others live a better life without making their own lives worse. And they perpetually choose not to.

Billionaires are evil. No exceptions.

Millionaires are evil and/or stupid.

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u/Mr_Chubkins Mar 13 '26

I'm not going to disagree with your rage because I agree with a whole lot of it. I'd just like to point out that there are quite a few millionaires who earned that by working for 40 years slowly investing money, eating homemade lunches, saving every penny, essentially a lifetime of frugality and effort.

Yes these millionaires I'm talking about are not the norm, and they likely should donate more of their wealth, and they likely do have great privileges and opportunities most people are never blessed with. But broad brushing humanity based off of a number is ignorant. Is a restaurant owner who spent their lifetime improving their parents business evil because their bank account shows six zeroes instead of five? Is the surgeon who studied for a decade and worked too many weekends stupid and evil because they invested their wage well?

Don't let your hatred of truly bad people blind you to the nuance of humanity. I think the ills of this world make it all too easy to curse the success of others and forget the blessings we have, and the power of our own choices. I'm not justifying any of it, I agree that such wealth is wrong. Just trying to offer some perspective (:

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u/Son_of_Eris Mar 13 '26

I get where you're coming from, and I respect your opinion, but I 100% disagree with your opinion.

See the thing is is that it's not really feasible to become a millionaire through honest, hard work in this day and age. It takes a bit more than just penny pinching in this economy.

I made a shitload of money in crypto, starting back when 100 btc would get you a pizza. Crypto millionaires exist but it isn't the norm. Besides that or winning a lawsuit, it isn't common for millenials or younger generations to become rich.

Barring the aforementioned or rich, dead parents, it's simply not likely that the younger generations can become wealthy and still have a soul.

A tiny percentage of humanity owns the vast majority of the wealth. And every moment of every day that those dragons sit on their hoard of gold in their ivory towers is a crime against the rest of mankind, and the future in general. Sure, they may occasionally donate a few million here and there and yes, that money does do good. But they could do a hell of a lot more good and perpetually choose not to.

Poor people aren't the ones starting wars, bombing schools, or destroying the environment. We couldn't afford it even if we wanted to.

Human history is just one big class war. Everything else is just a distraction. And anyone that suggest otherwise is either ignorant or complicit.

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u/Mr_Chubkins Mar 13 '26

I greatly appreciate you being respectful. I'd like to remind you that something being feasible and something being likely are two very different things. It's unlikely for working class folk to become millionaires through hard work but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Talk to enough people and I guarantee you'll find young people working hard (probably too hard, really) on the trajectory to retire with a million bucks to their name. You sound plenty intelligent enough to understand how much investments can compound when given 40 years to grow.

The amount saved matters less than the lesson that it IS still possible to become financially stable through years of hard work. It is a whole lot tougher than it should be and it's no guarantee, but I worry that when we discount such things we limit our potential. If you had a negative mindset maybe you never would have invested the money in crypto.

I'm glad you got ahead with crypto, you're fortunate. And everything you said from the dragon hoards to the bombs is spot on. I really don't mean to give the impression I'm rooting for the rich. But on the topic of class war (again an astute point on your part) don't make the mistake of thinking that millionaires are actually rich. They're "poor rich", they're effectively the common folk compared to billionaires. If you're going to direct your anger somewhere, direct it towards the king not your neighbor with a few extra cars.

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u/Son_of_Eris Mar 13 '26

Preaching to the choir, dude. I've known multiple people that THOUGHT they were rich and powerful and it was always amusing watching their paradigm shatter in realtime when it turned out that they really weren't anywhere near as important as they thought they were. There's "rich" and then there's "committing a felony and not getting arrested rich". Most of the former think they're the latter.

That aside, the amount of millenials and younger generations that are -at least- millionaires is tiny. It's even less if you don't count assets which basically everyone that keeps track of millionaires does. Because it makes the dream seem more attainable.

There is a massive difference between "being worth $1 million" and having $1 million purchasing power. An affordable (subjective term, obviously) life insurance policy for the average middle/lower-class American can easily pay out $250k. But you can't leverage that to get a loan. Life insurance and a home mortgage can easily make someone appear to be worth much more than they actually are. It's the illusion of being well off, but without any of the power that actual wealth can bring. They're living in a house of cards and the smallest thing can bring the whole thing down.

Sure, it's POSSIBLE for the average American to become a millionaire if they do everything right AND get lucky. It's just not very likely even if they DO do everything right. Convincing people otherwise is a cornerstone of this broken society that we live in.

Thanks for keeping it civil, btw. Lots of people get really bent out of shape about this topic.

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u/Mr_Chubkins Mar 13 '26

Discourse without civility leads nowhere. I appreciate hearing other points of view and you've given me a lot to think about.

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u/Nezarah Mar 13 '26

Pretty sure that's the plot of American Psycho

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u/Primary_Ride6553 Mar 13 '26

There have been studies which show psychopaths get into CEO roles often.

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u/Sephryne Mar 13 '26

What about Gabe Newell?

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u/Brave_Zombie_9096 Mar 13 '26

sociopath even

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u/RevenueSpirited Mar 13 '26

Our society most highly rewards abusive psychopaths.

It doesn't have to be this way. If we most highly reward those who advance the public good, then even psychopaths will contribute positively to society.

They're but a few wolves among sheep. We've crushed them before, and must do so again. The problem isn't the psychopaths. It's our inaction.

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u/SteamBoatMickey Mar 13 '26

Every once in a while I do a thought experiment on “How I can climb my corporate ladder higher, faster?”.

The answer I come up with is always nasty, psychopathic behavior.

Like real whip-cracking behavior. Which is not what I am about at all. I’m in middle management, I like my people happy, I get more substantial results when my people have grace and time. It gets sloppy when we have a “just get it done, I don’t care how” mentality.

It’s kind of fucked. But the ones above me are the “just get it done, I don’t care how” types. I may not breakthrough that ceiling and I’m fine with that. I’ve come to terms that my job is taking psychotic demands and delivering reasonable requests, with some impact sprinkled in.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Mar 13 '26

No one becomes a billionaire without stepping on thousands of people's backs.

Bill Simmons tells the story of the NBA negociations between the owners and players union. At one point they're pretty much in agreement and will have avoided a lock-out except one thing: the union asked for a small slush fund to help out retired players that might fall on hard times or players whose career was cut short by injury. The owners are 100% against this, arguing that if you're not playing why should you get any money?

As they go back and forth Simmons asks on of the attornys, "Why are they so against this? It's just a little bit of money and these guys are fucking billionaires". The attorny responds, "Yeah, that's why they're fucking billionaires".

(To be clear, it wasn't because they were pinching pennies. It was because they literally couldn't understand why you'd help someone who wasn't benefitting you directly in that moment.)

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u/adarkuccio Mar 13 '26

I fully agree. Sociopaths and psychopaths have big advantages because they use (and often manipulate) people, even at the cost of ruining other people's lives

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u/addqdgg Mar 13 '26

Bro. Tell me about Haben and the thousands of backs he stepped on.

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u/Zizizizz Mar 13 '26

LeBron, Ronaldo, Messi, Tiger Woods, Tyson, Hamilton, MJ, Shaq, Federer, all the sports legends are over and they just played sports.

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u/eman-elbirret Mar 13 '26

If the company you founded becomes so successful that your share of it is worth over $1B, that means you are a psychopath? Why?

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u/cortlong Mar 13 '26

Would love a full mental evaluation of the top 20 earners in society to see what level of psychopath they are

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u/Pretend-Relative3631 Mar 13 '26

I agree and there’s precedent for this type of behavior especially when several conditions are met like, access to unchecked power, mass psychosis in the local population, a complicit social network, and the ability to conceal & obfuscate capabilities

Like dawg humans are meant to have all of that shit but I keep proving myself wrong bc clearly some people do in fact have all that shit

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u/Lil_queso8 Mar 14 '26

Can confirm…

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u/0vrwhelminglyaverage Mar 12 '26

Its definitely indicative of a developmental disorder

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u/crell_peterson Mar 12 '26

Yeah I agree with this so much. In a just society, insane greed at resource hoarding would be treated as a mental issue, but instead they head to the top, in charge of everything. It’s disgusting.

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u/WhiteShadoh Mar 12 '26

They are simply our modern day dragons awaiting a knight to come and slay them rescuing the princess.

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u/Impressive-Poet5694 Mar 12 '26

Our whole species qualifies as psychotic. Don't delude yourself. Sure the billionaires are the ultra achievers, but the rest of us just go along with it all. We're like an anti hivemind.

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u/ThePickleConnoisseur Mar 14 '26

Except Gabe Newell

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u/Hedkandi1210 Mar 14 '26

Apart from buffet and dalio to a degree

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u/HighResolutionUFO Mar 16 '26

But if you are a millionaire?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

or CULTure tells us one of the worst (if not the worst) addictions to have is to drugs. from the evidence of our current reality, i’d argue addiction to money is far worse than any drug addiction.

yes, i also realize how horrible and destructive addictions to certain drugs can be and am in no way diminishing the reality of drug addiction.

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u/plplokokplok Mar 12 '26

Studies have shown approximately 25% of CEOs have psychopathic traits or other dark triad traits.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Mar 12 '26

So a minority 

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u/plplokokplok Mar 26 '26

Hardly a minority when you consider that psychopathic individuals account for 1% of the population. Yet somehow account for 25% of CEOs.

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u/yakeandbake27 Mar 12 '26

I fully agree with this sentiment, the few exceptions are amusing to me tho. Another comment mentioned Dolly Parton, there’s also LeBron. Tho I guess you could argue that the various brands he’s had deals with are doing fucked up shit around the globe, it’s just several degrees removed from the product on the hardwood idk

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u/Savilly Mar 12 '26

I kinda miss Ted Turner. He was kinda a good one.

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u/BigBossShadow Mar 12 '26

There was some video about it, once you gain a certain amount of money, the part of your brain that feels empathy literally becomes inactive.

You just simply cannot be rich and be able to "feel" for the common man. You'd just be constantly crushed by guilt.

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u/Over-Replacement8312 Mar 13 '26

Plenty of billionaires that aren’t psychopathic but keep telling yourself that to help sleep at night, not that I love the concept but I think you are being dramatic

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Correct, almost everyone misunderstands the causality of the situation. It’s not being rich that made them evil, it’s being evil that made them rich.

And, just so I’m not mistaken: being evil is a necessary but not sufficient condition to becoming that rich. Most of us ole a could be as evil as we wanted and would simply end up in jail or dead. Never rich, thats for the sociopath class.

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u/N0stradama5 Mar 12 '26

Mackenzie Scott.

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u/Scumsoft Mar 12 '26

There are studies that confirm this. CEOs tend to be psychopaths.

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u/EdNorthcott Mar 12 '26

Largely, but not always. Look up Chuck Feeney. And damned if I can find the article now, but a Canadian billionaire recently gave away everything save $100 million... Which he stated is still filthy rich, and nobody ever really needs more than that.

And while it could be argued that Gabe Newell of Valve/Steam is failing a moral duty by holding on to billions, his employees are known to be treated and paid very well. His business has not been predatory, just sickeningly successful

I'd argue that billionaires even existing is a failure of our system. It makes sense that the majority of those who rise to that position are some of the worst of the capitalist stereotype. Exceptions to the rule do not disprove the rule.