The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming(theatlantic.com)
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The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/08/the-dangerous-psychology-of-factory-farming/244063/
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On a related note, I think the argument has a strong correlation to the concept of any corporate entity. Replace cow, with employee; replace land with social impact. In both scenarios, people become more and more detached from the actual impact and consequences of their work. A corporate employee, or more commonly the executive layer, is charged with maximizing a single number: increase the sales, increase the share price, increase the page views. Where this leads, I'm not quite sure.
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I know it's experimentally proven that people are more likely to cheat/steal the more levels of abstraction there are between the things being gained/stolen and money.
I don't find what you're saying hard to believe at all, seems like the same or at least very similar behaviour.
I don't find what you're saying hard to believe at all, seems like the same or at least very similar behaviour.