Eh, I wouldn’t say it’s a largely influential factor.
Maybe a handful of tech company founders (e.g. Atlassian guy) have some degree of intelligence in their field, but id argue connections, sociopathy, and the right place at the right time are bigger factors. But most are born into it idiots like Trump or Musk.
Well if you don’t think so, it must be true, right?
And most of the people who cause all this heinous shit aren’t nearly as publicly facing as the ones you mention. Because they’re not idiots. They use the public facing fools as scapegoats for their actions.
I mean, you’re literally stepping on the point and not seeing it…
The point is, it doesn’t matter if they’re intelligent. “Greed can blind even the intelligent.” The entire point is they have a disgusting amount of greed. The greed userps their intelligence as their defining attribute.
Of course they’re intelligent. Lots of people are greedy but most of them aren’t greedy and rich.
Being intelligent doesn’t make you rich, being ruthless to your fellow humans makes you rich.
Normal people wouldn’t fuck over any and everyone for a dollar.
Yes, but being intelligent and ruthless means you’re more likely to succeed.
You can have multiple traits that affect things. It’s almost never just one thing or another.
Eh, I wouldn’t say it’s a largely influential factor.
Maybe a handful of tech company founders (e.g. Atlassian guy) have some degree of intelligence in their field, but id argue connections, sociopathy, and the right place at the right time are bigger factors. But most are born into it idiots like Trump or Musk.
Well if you don’t think so, it must be true, right?
And most of the people who cause all this heinous shit aren’t nearly as publicly facing as the ones you mention. Because they’re not idiots. They use the public facing fools as scapegoats for their actions.
How does it feel to lap that up?
I mean, you’re literally stepping on the point and not seeing it…
The point is, it doesn’t matter if they’re intelligent. “Greed can blind even the intelligent.” The entire point is they have a disgusting amount of greed. The greed userps their intelligence as their defining attribute.
Sorry, can’t relate to thinking Trump is intelligent.
And if Trump were the only part of the 1%, you might have a point.
The statement I replied to had no caveats.
Most of them are neither greedy nor smart - they were just lucky enough to be born into wealth.
It helps if you’re born rich too