Investing seems like a domain where charisma is particularly misleading. If you ranked billionaires in 2 ways, by how much their net worth has increased since the start of their careers (factoring in inherited wealth), versus how much they get talked about, what would you see?
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I guess the existence of a publicly active in-group serves as a check and balance against public charisma. What other writers or academics think of you matters in a way what other billionaires think of you doesn't. The "community of billionaires" is much more opt-in.
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And financial wealth, as opposed to intellectual capital, can be enjoyed much more easily in complete privacy. You can go billionairing on an island by yourself in a way you can't be a writer or scholar on an island.
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