The article discusses how success or wealth can lead people to believe they are superior, especially in tech, where coding skills are mistaken for overall intelligence.
Success or wealth can lead people to believe they are superior and deserve their achievements.
In tech, coding skills are often mistaken for overall intelligence and superiority.
Some successful people, like Bill Gates, may overestimate their expertise in unrelated fields like biology.
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Something weird happens to people who are successful. They start to think they're gods.
Actually accomplishing anything is obviously no strict pre-requisite of success. And maybe it's not so much "being successful", but rather "being rich". How do you become rich? Some people are just lucky. Lucky to have a physical talent, lucky to have parents able and willing to nurture your talent, and of course quite often lucky to have been at the right place at the right time1.
Being lucky doesn't mean they didn't also work hard. But even—especially!—the Paris Hiltons of the world, the children of Hollywood superstars, the crooks starting their corrupt empires with "a small loan" (or a share of an emerald mine) from their fathers—they all strongly believe that they deserve their success and then conclude that anybody not as successful only has themselves to blame.
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