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> That people try to dominate and manipulate others for business gain? Is that what you have an incredible amount of difficulty believing?

I'm sorry you wrote all of that, but no.

I have a hard time believing in the existence of some "alpha male" type who can bend "lizard brains" to their will, even against all reason and logic.

Unscrupulous people exist, but not in this pickup artist übermensch form.

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Based on your response, I can't tell if you are one of those obnoxious alpha types that just hasn't been able to use it to get money out of an investor, or if you really are just some guy on the internet trying to humble brag about being around so few people in life that you've never met an obnoxious, alpha male in the tech industry.

Consider my response in its entirety.

There are certainly alpha leadership types, and some of them are obnoxious, but I don't buy the whole pop psychology rationalization of their supposed ability to halt critical thinking in otherwise rational people. That just reads as a dudebro power fantasy to me.

MCRed's narrative can be true without the "lizard brain" nonsense being true (which came from someone else).

What he is describing reminds me a lot of grad school (although that is a totally different context).

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