238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is It That Corruptible People Seek Power?
Sot. Sot: Some people are psychopathic, who will absolutely relish causing pain and breaking the law to see if they can get away with it. There are other people who situationally will change their behaviour to act like a criminal. But what i'm talking about a lot in the book is this mediating fact that i call the system,. which is sort of the environment or structures around you that cause you to behave in different ways. And at all levels, we have to think carefully about how our systems either increase the tendency of awful people to seek and obtain power, or counteract that tendency.
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