We have expressions, such as power corrupts, to describe the abusive and selfish behavior of people in leadership positions. Those expressions imply that wonderful humans become corrupt when given positions of leadership. These concepts are false, however. The human brain doesnt change its internal structure when a person acquires a leadership position. The reason people have a tendency to become more selfish and arrogant when they are wealthy or acquire a leadership position is because they become more free to do as they please. When a person has a job that is low on the social hierarchy, such as a waitress, plumber, or gardener, he will be under close scrutiny by his boss, and other people will also reprimand him if he becomes unusually abusive or selfish. The people who are low on the hierarchy are kept under control by other people. When a person is promoted to a leadership position, everybody will instantly become submissive to him. He will not be under close scrutiny by anybody. He will have much more freedom than other people to do as he pleases. As the days pass, he will slowly adapt to his freedom by becoming more relaxed and doing as he pleases. Since humans are naturally selfish and arrogant, this is going to result in his behavior becoming increasingly abusive. This creates the illusion that a wonderful human, who had good control of himself, became selfish, abusive, and corrupt as a result of the mysterious substance we refer to as power.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:28:59 +0000
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