Here’s Why Investors Don’t Trust Anyone in Power
Don’t lie, cheat, or steal. Those seem like pretty good rules to live by. Most of us learned these values as children. We watched our parents and, when we strayed from the straight and narrow, suffered through a variety of consequences. The message doesn’t get through to everyone, of course, so we still need prisons for criminals.
But there’s a group of people who exist in the gray area, that shadowy space between upstanding citizens and outright thieves.
They know the difference between right and wrong, which is clear from their pleas when they’re caught. But it’s all an act. Their intent is to mislead and betray. We only see their true colors after they’ve affected our lives.
So I’ve got a suggestion: shock collars. I don’t know how the technology would work – maybe you’d hook a lie detector up to some electrodes? – but the hope is that liars will get a jolt when they open their mouths, and the rest of us might be spared some pain.
