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Comment by MattGaiser

6 months ago

Why? Why do people insist that brilliance means some moral purity? What makes brilliance and greed impossible together?

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dwattttt  6 months ago

You can be brilliant and greedy. The point at which you're making statements based on your greed rather than your brilliance, that's the line we stop saying they're brilliant.

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