An interesting question for exousiology is, given a young person with certain potential talents / innate alpha, what career path should they take in life to maximize their marginal influence with respect to their ideological commitments, such as Communism or implementing ubermensch world? Assuming the fungibility hypothesis , that influence is independent of command, the answer would just be to maximize your income. However, this could be naive. Compare the positions of anthropology professor and airline pilot. A typical anthropology professor makes $70,000 per year while a typical pilot makes $200,000 per year. Cathedral theorists would say that the anthropology professor is more powerful t

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