Many important figures of history have had these traits. That isn’t to say that they are good in the whole, only that it is not obvious that they are something

Many important figures of history have had these traits. That isn’t to say that they are good in the whole, only that it is not obvious that they are something so maladaptive that they get trimmed from the evolutionary tree. It’s only in the last 150 or so years that we expect all people to be Rational Economic Agents. If anything, I think /that/ is something that will get trimmed pretty quickly from the tree…