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You need to have the right personality. Either actually enjoy the game, or have an unsatiable (fear-driven?) need for status, or something else of this sort. We don't get to choose our personalities, though some limited modifications are possible - see treatments for personality disorders, for example.


> actually enjoy the game, or have an unsatiable (fear-driven?) need for status, or something else of this sort

Ie. Somewhat serious mental disorders as requisite for leadership.

I wonder how we got onto this darkest timeline?


If it's adaptive it's not a disorder.


sweet , a new way to justify addiction


Humans were like this since the inception of times. Chieftains, Khans, Czars, Kings, etc.


Evolution. It is a brutal process.




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