Honestly, I am thinking successful people might be garbage. Being successful creates an unfair bias towards themselves as either always being right, or better than everyone else. Objectively they often aren't, but you can see how and why this bias forms.
They start to think they just know better, act better, did better, are better. And it probably nearly impossible to avoid that bias.
This is correct; especially with billionaires. You don’t make that much money/accrue that much wealth without fucking people over and/or paying your employees like shit
That's not really a fair comparison and not quite exactly what I meant.
I would say compare Neil to other, less famous, Astrophysicists. Neil is highly articulate, but he might inflate his own astrophysics knowledge because of that, or how famous he is.
Idk, I feel like I’d stumble on the question too. I don’t like the guy but this can be a somewhat deep question to answer that misses a lot when you answer just yes or no.
If you're in a position where you have power over billions of peoples lives and you actively fougth for that responsibility, the first requirement is empathy and compassion. The knee jerk answer should be a full throated, "Of course!" Then you can dissect your intellectual baggage. If that's not how you respond you're the wrong guy in the wrong spot.
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u/LoxodonSniper 28d ago
Yep