The root problem is always the followers. It has been, it is and it will be. For one psycho that ends up in prison, there are millions of potential followers waiting for the next one.
We can't change humans from followers to leaders. If you try, you end up becoming a Mengele or similar monster. So, we have to harness the psychos, or accept the chaos they sow.
I would have expected a little more nuanced from you.
So people are either sheeps or leaders? Uh, no.
Your definition, not mine.
I
accept people as they are. I do not want to try to change them, because according to my own ethics, I do not have the right to force them to change, no matter how much I believe they'd be better of by it. Others have tried, and failed, and become monsters. Most of the people referred to by Godwin's law never thought of themselves as monsters, they
genuinely believed themselves to be a force for good. Until you understand and accept that, you know nothing of humans.
Now education is paramount, and will lift people away from poverty and unhealthy living conditions and behavioural patterns. It is admirable, and I will support efforts trying to make education available to everyone. However, it will not make many less prone to manipulation by psychopaths and sociopaths. That kind of 'immunity' or protection is a personality trait. Knowledge or understanding will offer only minimal support –– the kind where you know to try to avoid those people. Knowledge or understanding will not protect you when they get so close they can directly interact with you.
Take myself as an example. I
know how these people operate. Yet, when put face to face, I
will be manipulated successfully. It is only later, when I review my on actions and behaviour (which itself is actually pathological and not healthy), I will 'detect' the pattern. If you insist education and responsibility gets you there, how you explain my naïvete? Which one do I lack, education or responsibility? I know many intelligent and practically knowledgeable people (so not just academic knowledge, but also practical knowledge, including how fraudsters work) that still easily fall for social games, because they lack the personality traits that would shield them from it: I'm in no way unique in this. It is the underlying reason why I so detest social games: I and many others have no defense against them, even when we know exactly how they work, because they are based on something deeper than just the conscious mind.
If one accepts my argument that sociopaths and psychopaths exploit human psychology in ways that are based on personality traits and not learned behaviour, one will immediately see that there is no workable inoculation to give the masses. The only non-monstruous way, therefore, is to harness the psychopaths and sociopaths, to minimise the chaos and unstability they sow.
Also, note that I say "harness", and not confine/jail/isolate. There are many positions they are well suited for, and
beneficial to the people around them.
I'd love to work for a firm with one at the helm, but with emotionally/psychologically bound to the company and the work they do: the "our very own monster" concept.