Friedrich Hayek's explanation on why the worst

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rise to the top was pretty straightforward. He said, "When you have a leader whose only criteria is loyalty,

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then you have to be willing to do literally anything to succeed in that orbit." So if the leader says, "I want

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you to do something illegal," loyalty means a willingness to do something illegal. And as a result, the people with no centering values, the people

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with no morals, the people with no limits on what they're willing to do are the ones who most quickly rise to the

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top. Because the moment someone has a moral thought or a moment of conscience,

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they either self- select out of that orbit or they get kicked out of that orbit. This is exactly what happened in the first term. I witnessed it. .