I sometimes wonder if there is something genetic involved here. From an evolutionary perspective, a society full of 'leaders' is one that's going to collapse. Y

I sometimes wonder if there is something genetic involved here. From an evolutionary perspective, a society full of 'leaders' is one that's going to collapse. You need a large proportion of followers to maintain social order. There was an interesting article a while back indicating that entrepreneurs were much more likely than average to have tried to sell things at an earlier age, taken on a job at an earlier age, and generally engage in a variety of atypical behavior from a very early age -- independent of class. Bezos, as an example, worked at McDonald's during one summer, hated it, and the next summer started a week long summer camp for kids -- with a whopping 6 signups for the first batch, but still probably earning more in that week than he did in the summer months at McDonalds -- certainly having more fun. Jack Ma is perhaps the most pure example of this phenomena. [1] But of course not everybody can do this. I mean they technically can, but neither the market nor society would be able to sustain itself if everybody decided to try to lead and create instead of follow and consume. Perhaps it sounds extreme, yet people regularly attribute vastly more esoteric notions, such as mastery of everything from board games to music, to genetic factors. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma