L.W.: You're absolutely right. Exxon Mobile-
R.K.: You're describing an army.
L.W.: Exxon Mobile's profits last year were bigger than what 60% of the world's countries' GDPs. They are. They are entities in and of themselves. You get a guy like Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil who gives a speech in Kazakhstan where in essence he said he would rather live in Kazakhstan because they have a better environment for energy development. I mean, these guys have no national loyalty. They have no feeling of fealty to a particular country, their fealty is to their fiduciary responsibility and their own wealth. That's it. Period.
R.K.: Well let's talk a little bit about that. Recently I had on the author of the book and the producer of the movie, The Corporation, have you seen that movie?
L.W.: No, I've heard about it, I haven't seen it.
R.K.: It basically goes through describing just how many ways corporations are like psychopaths.
L.W.: Yeah.
R.K.: And I'm really, I have really gotten interested in understanding psychopaths because I think they play so big a role in our culture, not the ones who get caught and go to jail but the smart ones who don't. And I think of them as, if there's one word I use for a psychopath, it's predator. And that's how we started this conversation.
L.W.: Yes. That's a good metaphor.
R.K.: So, can you throw together some thoughts about what we have talked about so far and psychopaths and predators of that nature?
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