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Jeff Pfeiffer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business studied C-Suite executives and found that, on average, they rank higher on psychological testing instruments that measure sociopathic traits. As you say, the business press tends to treat this as a feature, rather than a bug.

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American culture tends to treat it as a feature and not a bug--indeed, most capitalist societies do this.

It is interesting to note how attitudes towards "business" changed between 1300 and the present. Usury used to be a sin, for example.

There were obvious problems with the previous attitudes, but we seem to have gone overboard in the other direction. No moderate middle approach (in practice).

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