Well a good number of those “idiots” didn’t do it by working harder than everyone else. Many of them in were the right place at the right time and they were smart enough to take advantage of their situation. Some of them are brilliant. Some of them not so much.
No amount of work or discipline can make you an Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. No amount of work can make you a Mozart or Michelangelo. It comes from somewhere else.
Brilliant people can do great things and they can do great damage. To really go off the rails and take lesser people with them it often takes genius, genius that an ounce of common sense would clarify. Take Marx for example. I’d argue that genius and self discipline are critical to being productive in a positive way but even that is no guarantee success. Take Nikola Tesla for example. That genius and low self discipline eventually leads to personal destruction in ways that ordinary people wouldn’t know how to achieve...
There have been many idiots who have achieved great success. Look at all the billionaires who are socialists and believe in government. what could be dumber than believing in government/socialism? the facebook creep, Warrren Buffet , Bill Gates, soros, lewis, countless other billionaires trust government and that’s idiotic. these imbeciles should know the socialists will take all their money first and that socialism can never work. these billionaires are dumb so it’s not their intelligence that go them there.
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these people do not TRUST government, they are sleeping with government. They are PAID by government.