When a person had no desires, you could not exploit their greed for those desires to make them do anything.
But once they had a desire, once someone discovered what they wanted, they could easily find themselves in a situation where they lost the initiative.
This was actually quite common between workers and employers. Workers needed money to support themselves and their families, and that was their "desire."
Entrepreneurs and capitalists exploited their "desire" to survive, using "compensation" as bait to make them work for them.
Why did people always say they had suffered exploitation and oppression at the hands of capitalists, yet still refused to quit?
The reason was not complicated. It was simply for the money.
Leaving their current job did not necessarily mean they would find a better one, and the capitalists had clearly realized this as well. That was where the conflict between labor and capital was concentrated.
Apart from that, it was also common in relationships between men and women.
The former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had not had many desires. Given the... nature of the Federal Government, no president would put someone who was not a trusted confidant in that position.
Perhaps in terms of the hierarchy and structure of power, it could not compare with the Security Committee or Homeland Security Bureau.
But it was still a position that could not be ignored!
A change in president also meant a change in the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, so basically everyone who had taken that position because a president had come to power
would not feel much attachment to it. They could only serve for four or eight years.
The next president would not let them continue simply because they had performed well during their term.
Basically everyone