Consider the contents of "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" the point being that a million other kids wasted their youth screwing around, but it only took one

Consider the contents of "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" the point being that a million other kids wasted their youth screwing around, but it only took one with some writing skill to have a ridiculously outsized impact on the world. And that's just the positive side. On the negative side, it seems a realistic hypothesis that The Unibomber had more total overall long term impact on society than all of Reddit. Realistic in the sense that its doable 50:50 odds debate topic, not realistic in the sense that obviously my hypothesis is unarguably correct. One weirdo deciding to voluntarily drop out of society and live alone in the woods causes X amount of drama, but kicking 5% of your population out of society and forcing them to angrily live alone in the woods will result in one-zillion times Z amount of drama.