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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...

Einstein was an idiot. He believed totally in socialism/marxism . now 99% of the people on this forum know socialism can never work. 90% of registered Republicans know socialism/marxis can never work. also most Americans know socialism can never work .that is the most obvious fact to anyone that only an idiot would believe socialism could work. government is unaccountable and for that reason alone government or socialism can never work. is Obama, Lois Lerner, the IRS , the FCC accountable to you or to the people. HELL NO. a private business is accountable as they have to compete against others to give you a good product or they go out of business. that is the difference betwween socialism and capitalism . iphone vs the IRS which one you think works? walmart vs the government schools ? and so on. toyota vs the EPA. etc.