Does holding power favour people who do not care about others?
John said in 2024 that people who want to be dictators are unqualified by that very wish.
Axis: power favours the uncaring ... caring people rise just as well
Positions by date: 5 records in 5 videos. The position did not change in these records.
John
| date | how | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-29 | first on record | John is glad they are not God, since they would be bad at it, and says people who really want to be God or dictators are inherently unqualified, because wanting that is weird. | If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes 00:04:55 |
Hank
| date | how | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-27 | first on record | Hank thinks so many sociopaths and psychopaths hold power because, not caring about others, they aren't stressed by big things; 'we set the system up for this'. | My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety 00:02:46 |
| 2025-06-13 | restate | Hank says the man got powerful not in spite of being rude, crass, manipulative, deceitful, indifferent to truth and narcissistic, leader of a cult of himself, but because of it. | Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) 00:04:52 |
| 2025-08-15 | restate | Hank thinks there is a pretty tight overlap between authoritarians and powerful narcissists. | What Trump is Doing to Universities 00:03:40 |
| 2026-07-10 | restate | Hank argues that if status requires that much drive and indifference to the dehumanization it brings, it will go to those who want it most. | How Status Destroys Us 00:04:44 |