Why is D unpopular?

[Max Samukha]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 08:42:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

> Equating entrepreneurship with genius is an american thing. The 
> US doesn't really have a unifying cultural identity, symbols of 
> capitalism has become the unifier. You see it all the time in 
> US media, money becomes culture (symptoms: Kardashians, Paris 
> Hilton, Donald Trump etc).
>
> Most reasonable people would reserve the term "genius" to 
> people who's intellectual work far surpass what comes after: 
> Bach, Einstein, Aristoteles etc… Has nothing to do with 
> business at all.
>
> (An no, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs does not qualify.)

Yeah, it's fun to hear Musk saying something like "it's useless 
to think about things that cannot be turned into a product", 
while all his products are using the results of the intellectual 
work that people like him considered useless a century ago.