In modern team sports, athletes are gigantic and highly tuned which puts them constantly on the edge of injury. A common result is that the coach must inculcate a spirit of “next man up” among the players. Whoever is available must _ and will _ fill a gap no matter how great the person being replaced.
Democracy and capitalism were expected in my youth to work the same way. Kill a dictator and you might win a war. But kill a democratically elected leader and a thousand would spring up to carry on the fight. If a leading industrial captain dies, either his firm or competition will make sure production continues.
The only possible exception back then was the historic controversy over whether a genius makes a difference. Would this be the same world without Caesar or Napoleon? But even that has faded a bit now.
Which makes it all the more curious that our current crop of entrepreneurs and politicians consider themselves irreplaceable. This would be silly, except that they support hordes of sycophants who sing their praises each night and cut their taxes each day. ”They deserve it!” We each secretly believe that we are irreplaceable. Our logic contradicts that intuition.
Worshiping the wealthy is a bad bet.
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