The dream of many a disgruntled intellectual teen is to have a dark personality, yet be so good at the hard skills that people put up with it.

The most unproductive form this can take is when dark personality traits are seen as a signal of brilliance... “Well if they’re such an asshole they must be good at their job or they would have been shown the door already”.

See also: the idolisation of Rick from Rick and Morty