Give me the Death Note, I can be trusted to act rationally. The only “undeserving” to end up on it would be people who step through Metro doors and immediately stop, even though there’s people behind them.
More seriously I know the author has said it’s about power corrupting, but if that’s the story he wanted to tell then he should’ve chosen a different protagonist. Its also a silly mantra, we do not live in a Tolkien novel, power isn’t some supernatural force.
Sorry I referenced a widely known piece of fiction instead of the epic of Gilgamesh or something.
Secondly: Your pop-science article does not seem to show that the abstract notion of power is some magical all-encompassing force, rather it makes vague gestures towards how current hierarchical structures in capitalist society either appeal to “bad people” or rewards the behavior of “the worst people”.
There’s no causal link between the concept of power and people “becoming worse”, because of course there wouldnt be. A kindergarten teacher has immense power over her students, am I to believe due to some magical particle she becomes “evil” some day? No.