Idiopaths

A new definition of an old word; an idiopath is either a fraud, a cheat, incompetent, lazy, frightened, a freak, a sociopath, or a psychopath.

How do you know if you are an idiopath?

Just ask a good psychologist, or if you are having trouble finding one just reflect on the sort of employment that is attractive to you.

Are you, for example, attracted to jobs in organisations with these features?

Test 1. Organisations that are not for profit, or

Test 2. If it is, where your job has no meaningful impact on the profit of the organization, or

Test 3. If it does, where the profit of the organization is the result of some government mandated legislation, monopoly or oligarchy. That is, the performance of the organization doesn’t impact its prospects for survival and growth, nor does it impact the prospects for survival and growth of the organization’s customers.

Roughly speaking, test 1 above attracts worse idiopaths than test 2, and test 2 attracts worse idiopaths than test 3.

This will give you a degree of your idiopathy to ponder.

This may change over time. For example, you might lose your naivety, become less lazy or meet a shaman.