What Does It Mean to Be a Good Person?

Jeff Yang: Could the pathways to power at elite organizations be turning people from marginalized backgrounds off from even wanting to play the power game? Was he an outlier or part of the pattern? He noticed that oftentimes the objections tended to come from women and racial minorities, first generation college students in the class. Peter decides to conduct some surveys as part of his dissertation research. Let's ask regular people, what do you think about power? What do you think gets people to the top?Yang: People from economically disadvantaged backgrounds said they would seek positions of power. If they thought that power could benefit others, not just themselves, they were more likely to opt out.