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Re: 5 Scientific Reasons People in Power will always Suck

eliotn — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:22:32 GMT

"1 reason you shouldn't take crap like this seriously: bogus references."

Yeah good point. The thing that seemed off to me was that they used psychological experiments, where there are always the potential for errors. Also, the random deductions. But I think austrian economics has better answers, many of the people in power suck in government or corporate government relationships, because of perverse incentives and no checks against their power, whereas it isn't so in the free market.

Re: 5 Scientific Reasons People in Power will always Suck

Caley McKibbin — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:54:12 GMT

1 reason you shouldn't take crap like this seriously: bogus references.

Re: 5 Scientific Reasons People in Power will always Suck

triknighted — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:46:37 GMT

eliotn:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18777_5-scientific-reasons-powerful-people-will-always-suck.html

Thought this was an interesting read, some of this might fit in with political science. However, I don't know if all of these statements are necessarily true. Discuss.

Not sure if power and self-absorption are bad things. Plus I wouldn't call it scientific, just plain common sense that they're linked, lol.

5 Scientific Reasons People in Power will always Suck

eliotn — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:28:52 GMT

http://www.cracked.com/article_18777_5-scientific-reasons-powerful-people-will-always-suck.html

Thought this was an interesting read, some of this might fit in with political science. However, I don't know if all of these statements are necessarily true. Discuss.