2.1.4. Fatalism
Fatalism results when people are subject to the authority of others but have no group membership
to give them a sense of belonging. In the extreme, fatalists operate under the assumption that they lack agency in the world; nature is capricious and there is nothing they can do to control their own fate. Fatalists are almost always at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. This lack of effectiveness in the world leads to a corresponding view that risk cannot be managed and success or failure is random (Nature Capricious). Each of the other worldviews exerts power over fatalists in various ways. As fataliststend to be outside the realm of management and decision making, they have little relevance to the aims of this article. However, this worldview does represent a specific set of people forced to live by the decisions of others, and thus their reactions are worth consideration.