[Edmund Ironside]

(01-08-2017 02:30 PM)Yeti Wrote:  

In other words, there's less emphasis on creating, and more on gaming the system and fucking other people out of money.

I think this is a natural result of a society that doesn't promote honesty as a virtue, but rather promotes salesmanship and influence. Smart people end up using their brains more to take advantage of others rather than to do anything constructive. There is a reason why people tend to interpret honesty as stupidity. It doesn't even cross anyone's mind that a person might be honest due to ethics.