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Yes there's definitely a yearning for a person with crap politics to be also a fraud and under-performer. The most famous auto maker of the last century was a N
by varjag 4y ago
Yes there's definitely a yearning for a person with crap politics to be also a fraud and under-performer. The most famous auto maker of the last century was a Nazi sympathizer and the previous space program darling an SS officer, you'd think people figure it out by now.
- api 4y agoHow many musicians do you like who are complete lunatics or toxic narcissists in real life? There just doesn't seem to be a correlation between success in some narrow domain like engineering, business, art, or music and being a good human being in general. I also wonder if there's a causative factor. When someone becomes super successful they tend to get surrounded by people telling them what a genius they are. That can definitely distort someone's self image. Could you stay balanced if millions of people compared you to a comic book superhero for years and loads of people did whatever you said because you had tons of money? Now throw in tons of stress and quite possibly a good helping of loneliness due to the difficulty all this creates with forming real deep relationships with others.
- WalterBright 4y ago> There just doesn't seem to be a correlation between success in some narrow domain like engineering, business, art, or music and being a good human being in general. I don't see any particular correlation with being a bad human, either. Look hard enough at anyone and you'll find feet of clay. Success in their domains greatly outshine the clay.