According to Osho, power itself doesn’t corrupt; it exposes the repressed desires already hiding in the unconscious. Hierarchies fail when masks drop and unexamined drives surface—most dangerously under absolute power. Prevention means inner work: bringing the unconscious to light through awareness, so impulses can’t hijack action—and designing checks that deny anyone absolute, unchecked authority.
Power shows what’s already inside you, so clean up your inner world and never give anyone power with no limits.