| Tl;dr Even if you are #1 of 8,000,000,000 , you are still just 1 in 8,000,000,000 To be perfectly fair I think many of the leaders cited in this piece know perfectly well that they are easily replaced. Like, take the most traumatic instances such as JFK or Lincoln being shot. Yes there were a couple of days of sorrow (or better yet fake sorrow) but after a couple of days everybody moved on. Pyramids were supposed to be monuments to the Pharoahs, but after a while the fame of structure managed to surpass the fame of the person buried underneath. When there are so many humans the marginal value of any human plummets to record lows. Take Jesus, he's unrivaled at #1, but if we are being honest what's really the % of waking hours that humanity as a whole spends thinking about him during a fiscal year? It gets diluted into almost insignificant levels of attention. |