From the New York Post:

Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths

“Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It” (Wiley), out Tuesday. 

I want to read this book.

According to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist — the universally accepted diagnostic tool used to assess this disorder — a psychopathic personality includes traits such as a grandiose sense of self-worth, a lack of remorse or guilt, poor behavioral controls, pathological lying and a lack of empathy.

These attributes aren’t just present “but celebrated in Silicon Valley,” says Gavet, who once held the position of executive vice-president of global operations for Priceline Group, among other roles.

Research by the FBI found that companies managed by psychopaths tend to have decreased productivity and low employee morale. In fact, Silicon Valley’s psychopathic traits “trickle down through entire organizations,” says Gavet. “In effect creating psychopathic companies.”

It’s an excuse she’s heard repeatedly. “I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard people in Silicon Valley dismiss something horrible they may have caused with, ‘That’s the cost of disruption,’ ” she says. “They’re like, ‘Yeah, it’s awful, but we’re trying to make the world a better place, so it’s OK.”

This Machiavelian “the ends justify the means” is a hallmark of Leftism, if you want to know why so many of these Silicon Valley types are Leftist.  Every Leftist knows they can’t create utopia without first killing off millions of people who stand in their way.

The patron saint of Big Tech douches, the one who inspired an entire generation of start-up entrepreneurs to put their worst face forward, was late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. He disliked wearing shoes (or showering), preferred parking in handicapped parking spots and once motivated employees by calling them “f–king d–kless assholes.”

“His legacy has cultivated an indelible association between being a jerk and a genius,” writes Gavet. “Which has ballooned to the point where many people believe that a founder-CEO, in particular, actually has to be a jerk to be a genius.”

This is absolutely true.  I’ve written about this before.

Lots of people who don’t know Elon Musk celebrates him as a visionary.  A few of his wealthy peers praise him.  He burns through engineers like fire through a California forest.  I know.  My new job is with an aerospace subcontractor.  The turnover rate at the private aerospace companies is so high we can change point-of-contact engineers a couple of times before an order is filled.

The tech world and tech writers celebrate the utter abuse of employees in the name of progress and efficiency.  It is grotesque.

Here are some articles to this effect:

From Entrepreneur: Why It Pays to Be a Jerk Like Jeff Bezos

From Business Insider: Is your CEO brilliant, a jerk, or both? Here’s how to tell

From INC: Why Tech Founders Who Act like Jerks Become Rich and Successful

When protesters set up a Guillotine outside Jeff Bezo’s home, I 100% can’t blame them.

Protesters assembled outside of @JeffBezos's DC home have constructed a guillotine. pic.twitter.com/pDFcTg81K9

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 27, 2020

I’m sure quite a lot of his employees agreed with that sentiment.

These CEOs are more abusive in many ways than the European aristocracy or Russian monarchy that lost their heads.

It’s hard to be a Hitler in the US government.  There are way too many checks and balances.  It’s easier in the private sector.  Just be a “disruptive” billionaire and donate enough to politicians and you can get away with working people to death in your fulfillment centers and ignore them for 20 minutes when they have a heart attack and die on the floor.

When you know what goes on inside these tech companies, it makes Henry Clay Frick’s management of the Homestead Steel Mill look like a playground squabble.

These CEO’s donate money to BLM and other Leftist causes to distract from the fact that they are monsters, with a messianic view of themselves, and billions of dollars to pay for PR and politicians to ignore their utter inhumanity.

I realized a long time ago, why I will never exceed a certain income level.  I can’t treat the people who work under me that badly.

I once heard a program manager from a big tech aerospace company marvel at what the CEO was going to accomplish.  He said, in reference to the pace that the CEO wanted to accomplish things: “You know how the Egyptians built the pyramids? By whipping slaves.”