Silicon Valley tech bros are the only humans stupid enough to think that because they (might be) good at one thing, then they must be good at everything.
“It was only when I sold my app to help people learn how to count to 100 that I realized I’d make a great Secretary of the Interior someday”
“It was only when I sold my app to help people learn how to count to 100 that I realized I’d make a great Secretary of the Interior someday”
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Western protagonists tend to be unambiguously heroic with one major flaw.
They show that positive traits almost always correlate. So people subconsciously believe it.
People tend to be surprised when skilled people are also immoral or unpleasant people.
They didn't invent the compiler, or TCP/IP, or OS kernels, or a lot of the fundamental building blocks of what is just "very popular websites"