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I know a number of CEO's and have regular dealings with a number of fairly well to do ones. These are, for the most part, people who have always been very self-centered and driven. They're not dumb, but they aren't the most compassionate people. Their biggest problem is that they're managers and they like to be efficient. They dislike waste, corruption, and abuse. Therefore when they look at say, a social program, they look at the inefficiencies, the waste, the corruption. They'll see the one welfare queen as an example of why Welfare as a whole is bad. They'll point out the one adult on sChip taking advantage of the program, rather than the hundreds and thousands it helps.
The self-centered drive to create themselves, and make no mistake the majority are self-made even if they had a leg up by a good education, partnered with a lack of compassion and a dislike of corruption, create a breed of individual who hides behind their gated community walls with a "i got mine" mentality.
And yes, when the shit hits the fan they'll reach out to government and social services as quick as anyone, or quicker, because it's all about them.
These are the majority of big business CEO's. you don't get that far in those companies by being a compassionate helper. You get that far by being a uncompassionate pitbull.
So they vote their interests which consists of them, and their money, without a care for anyone else in the world.
No shock.
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