>There is also a separate, much bigger lesson in that if you make friends and/or play politics, you also don't have to work as hard and still get rewarded (some

>There is also a separate, much bigger lesson in that if you make friends and/or play politics, you also don't have to work as hard and still get rewarded (sometimes massively). Because there is more to success and life than "hard work". Who can blame people (with money) who are willing to pay extra to be around people they want to spend time with ("make friends")? There's a trope in the tech work that people should tolerate "angry nerds" because they are 10xers or whatever. Most of the real world doesn't operate that way.