Terthna
Professional Lurker
That's because screwing other people over is the easiest, quickest, and most reliable way to get rich, so long as everything you do is technically legal (or you at least have a way to not get caught); which requires a certain lack of empathy for others to follow through with. Look at WeWork for example:Not all of them, but there is a disturbing correlation with the most successful businessmen having psychopathic or even sociopathic personality traits.
Adam Neumann spent years selling anyone and everyone who would listen to him on lies piled on top of lies, and now he's worth over $2 billion. Moreover, ever after having his house of cards finally collapse and being ousted from the scam of a company he founded, he's at it again with a new company by the name of Flow; which has already received $350 million from a venture capital firm, even though the only thing that exists as far as I can tell right now is the name. That is the sort of rich person our culture tends to cultivate; con artists exalted to positions of prominence by idiots gambling with other people's money.