Okay, this is not a recent article but for sure quite accurate about the big picture: around the top 0.1% gravitate the 0.99% millionaires who also exhibit the same psychopathic traits. Such people are kinda seldom in the middle and lower classes. It is quite fair to assume that 90% of them can be located in the upper and rich classes. They are perceived as successful because the system breeds and praises psychopathy.
Although many can't wait to see more women in politics, in this environment, that might be even more dangerous because it is the system that needs to be abolished. Let's keep in mind that any serious candidates (regardless of the gender) would advocate for such a move.
Callous and opportunistic, female psychopaths are the rarest of a rare breed. Though they share much with their male counterparts, they may be even better equipped to elude detection. (2019)
So where does responsible capitalism really start? How to determine that a certain amount of wealth is enough? And more importantly, what for if death takes everything from us?
We cannot answer these questions without taking a big step backward and look at our world history. At the time when the hunter-gatherers' lifestyle was still unchallenged. A long era dominated by peace as society didn't have any real hierarchy. Despite the division of labor, there were Sages and women were respected. Many anthropologists agree, prior to 3,000BC, wars didn't exist.
Unfortunately, it is when hunter-gatherers started to settle and chose an agricultural lifestyle, that things began to shift dramatically. Ownership became the new mantra and needed to be "protected" by the legislation of property rights. This is when we think, that the "concept of money" was invented. We elaborate on this in our upcoming video.
Property rights, in fact, cause scarcity because someone wealthier is systematically rewarded with a bigger part of the pie... and it's mathematical. So those who have less are left struggling. It is the dynamics, the process, by which power and profiteering of other's people problems come about.
Our society encourages psychopathy and if we are serious about finding more balance in the world, this situation is a strict and absolute priority. It must be dealt with before anything else!
So yes, now you get it. It is self-evident.
A money-free society is really required because individualism is no solution at all. Of course, there could be some people who'd refuse to participate in a voluntary society, working 10-15hrs/weekly for the great good, but they will remain a minority because tasks would more pleasant than any 9 to 5 cubicle job. In fact, most work available would be in vertical farming and 3D printing while making sure to help Nature replenish Herself.
In this day and age, humans do not need to struggle to make a living, we 're programmed to think that way. What we need to be happy are decent and respectful interactions with other fellow humans, and our creativity to be acknowledged. Our advantage today is that technology is here to take over any dirty jobs. And without AI.
Hunter-gatherers lacked the technology and because they didn't know better, the working class was "invented". It is now time for this mindset to be let go of!
We recommend the video below featuring "real" experts in human behaviors agreeing that violence is the result of a society that does not nurture life in the broad sense and asserting that if human basic needs are met, our species is very empathic. The article is very long and for sure very interesting, though the author, just like many, just won't question the "tentacles of money" either. All the solutions offered are thus not only mere intellectual contortions but not implementable because the flaws are embedded in monetarism itself.
How Will the 99% Deal with 70 Million Psychopaths? (2012)
Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath? These individuals are either born with an emotional deficiency that keeps them from feeling bad about hurting others or they are traumatized early in life in a manner that causes them to become this way. With more than 7 billion people on the planet that means there are as many as 70,000,000 psychopaths alive today. These people are more likely to be risk takers, opportunists motivated by self-interest and greed, and inclined to dominate or subjugate those around them through manipulative means.
What can we do collectively to contain and manage this small minority of people who are driven by selfish motives with no concern for others? How must we include them in our plans so that global civilization can transition to a configuration of peaceful cooperation and environmental balance? This is the defining question for global financial stability and environmental sustainability. It runs right to the core of our inability to garner collective action on such systemic challenges as climate change, global poverty, and corporate corruption. It is the central issue of political power that has so far eluded our environmental and social justice movements.
Things changed with the invention of agriculture and its associated patterns of human settlement and increasingly sophisticated economic structures. The rise in population size, combined with a division of labor into social castes, enabled the would-be upstarts to sow division in the ranks and rise in power through physical and political domination. The checks-and-balances of tribal society no longer held them in place. And so it happened that the psychopaths in our midst were able to begin the process of consolidating power and manipulating the masses for personal gain.
But why were there psychopaths in the first place? What possible advantage could they bring to the genetic mix that promotes human flourishing? It is vital that we keep in mind that being psychopathic is NOT the same as being violent or criminal. A psychopath is simply a person whose brain does not register stressful feelings when they observe harms inflicted on others. Someone with this characteristic might be more likely to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain, but they quite often are aware of social sanctions (and the punishments that follow) and so constrain their behaviors accordingly.