It almost looks like the "choice" to empire, as well as so many other choices the "empire" makes, are self-generating. How can a giant corporation become, in itself, psychopathic, even if some of the players in them are not psychopathic? That question bears answering, I think, if we are ever to find a way to stop many of the horrible things these corporations are doing.
Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats, what cocaine is to addicts. Not only does it attract the corruptible, power attracts precisely the sort of people who should not have it.
It almost looks like the "choice" to empire, as well as so many other choices the "empire" makes, are self-generating. How can a giant corporation become, in itself, psychopathic, even if some of the players in them are not psychopathic? That question bears answering, I think, if we are ever to find a way to stop many of the horrible things these corporations are doing.
Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats, what cocaine is to addicts. Not only does it attract the corruptible, power attracts precisely the sort of people who should not have it.
This is the kernel of The Iron Law Of Oligarchy.