[richerram]

Not sure we all have the same definition of what successful means... pretendig to know at a high technical level what happens in the 5+ companies you are the ""CEO"" of, while fighting trolls on twitter all day and having children with 4 different women (that we know of), children of which at least one doesn't want to know anything from you and all this while switching your stance on politics by 180 degrees because it serves your business well...?

I mean, the system in which we live right now has a very particular Objective Function that optimizes for money and like in the social networks case where they realized the system shaped towards the objective function without considering the well being of its members, it optimized for screen time through extremism, hate speech and fake news... in the same way our current societies don't favor the nicest, most caritative, nor even smartest members; it favors the ones who are willing to cheat, lie, step over, dehumanize others... all for the sake of "being successful".