Sociopaths are a problem, and you should aggressively guard against them.
Now this applies outside of subcultures, to other business and personal affairs, and seems to capture the most original and important part of this theory.
We should probably add: people making money off of something have (at least somewhat) misaligned incentives with those trying to either create or enjoy that thing. Those misaligned incentives will sometimes encourage them to act like sociopaths.
How about this distillation of the theory:
Sociopaths are a problem, and you should aggressively guard against them.
Now this applies outside of subcultures, to other business and personal affairs, and seems to capture the most original and important part of this theory.
We should probably add: people making money off of something have (at least somewhat) misaligned incentives with those trying to either create or enjoy that thing. Those misaligned incentives will sometimes encourage them to act like sociopaths.