And I actually respect the hell out of that.
Yes, true. I’d take a more nuanced view. . . that the sets of traits that tend to be selected for in those roles is generally predictable. Not that there’s no variety, but there is selection in process and some psychologies have certain advantages while others do not gravitate or don’t succeed in a broad number of the roles that influence what’s actually done and do the dirty deeds.
There are, of course, also social pressures, often quite tremendous. Those forge us as well, and given how important a career is in today’s world … well, we have plenty of stories and movies that walk us down the torturous trail to corruption, we can’t pretend that good people can’t get hooked in too.
I think that works better. It’s not a boogeyman so much as a predictable dynamic that gets created when we have systems that favor the wrong traits and motivations, right?
Word.
Brains. You can’t live without 'em, but they attract zombies.
Or something like that. Sorry, used up most of my thinks in the prior bit! 
