It says a lot that he thinks that empathy is the greatest human weakness.

One of many, many, many stupid things he's said.

heresie-dabord 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In one interview, Mush called it the "empathy exploit".

This is the kind of person who would benefit from being raised and humanised in a village where people co-operate. Because then, as countless others have discovered, bluster and insults work only until the self-aggrandising narcissist meets someone not only bigger, but with better principles, and an actual leader of people.

There is a reason why many satisfying movie plots involve a final, usually violent comeuppance served to a self-aggrandising narcissist.

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vrganj 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not just stupid, sociopathic. Definitionally.

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caaqil 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You don't generally reach that level of wealth and success without at least having strong sociopathic (maybe even psychopathic) tendencies.

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jjtheblunt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

that's a stretch: andreessen got wealthy because he worked for the UIUC group in a project which turned out super popular, super funded by Jim Clark, and got massive explosion in worth. there's no sociopathy involved from him back then.

Musk made a company that jumpstarted some wealth and invested in other things which exploded.

Toto Wolff is a gazillionaire because he too made some pretty incredibly timed investments.

point is, extreme wealth results from some combination of work, timing luck, strategy, and sociopathy, but they're not all required to span the space of wealthy people.

	▲	vrganj 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You might get incredibly lucky and bexome a billionaire without being a sociopath. There's no way to stay a billionaire without being one, as long as there's abject poverty and suffering.