Moron Zuck lost $80 billion on the metaverse. To me, it was always obvious that he was never some great mind, but a greedy and limited man who got incredibly lucky with Facebook. That is the problem with people like this: once luck brings them success, they start believing they created it all by pure genius. They forget how much chance, timing, and circumstance helped them. They turn luck into proof of their greatness.
The same thing can be seen about asshole Hitler Putin. A certain moment in history, the weakness of others, and a chain of lucky conditions can lift a man much higher than he really deserves. But once he starts believing that rise was entirely his own doing, his judgment begins to rot. He mistakes luck for strength, accident for superiority, and temporary success for deep wisdom. Now he is trapped in that war. Even if he were to win something on the surface, in the long run and on clear paper he would still lose. The false glory both of these morons are floating in now is nothing more than an illusion. The fundamental parts of their stories are already rotten, and that rot will inevitably show itself in the end.
And in truth, both of them are big fucking losers, not real examples of success. Money, power, and public image are enough to impress shallow people, but they do not make a life admirable. A man who becomes trapped in arrogance, self-deception, and ignorance of his own limits is not a success, no matter how high he once climbed.
That is why such people often fail so badly. Their downfall begins the moment they stop understanding the role luck played in their rise. Once they believe their own myth, they become blind to their limits. Then they make worse and worse decisions, with full confidence, until reality finally breaks them.
What they both lack, at the deepest level, is critical thinking: the ability to question themselves, doubt their own myth, and see reality before it destroys them.
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