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four mitigating factors that make power appear to corrupt when something else is actually going on.
- four mitigating factors that make power appear to corrupt when something else is actually going on.
- dirty hands
- people in power often are faced with no good alternatives and your hands will appear dirty, even when you choose the lesser of the evils
- the idea of learning
- authoritarian leaders are new to the job in the beginning and they have to learn to be good at being bad. Their leadership may appear to get worse but they are just learning how to be more effectively ruthless - on-the-job training
- the problem of opportunity
- a scaling effect. A leader of a country has far more people they can harm with his/her decision than a janitor.
- the problem of scrutiny
- people in power get more scrutiny
- if you are not in power, you could be committing a crime but never get caught because you are not scrutinized to the same degree - think Donald Trump
- dirty hands
- four mitigating factors that make power appear to corrupt when something else is actually going on.
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