Ray Dalio is a perfect example of a person being analytically and synthetically successful and otherwise covering for severe character defects like Steve Jobs and in the big picture guys look like him are a fucking joke and anybody who takes them seriously as "leaders" should be smacked around a few times with a hardcover biography of Teddy Roosevelt.
Dalio might not be able to juggle but he's still a clown who gets clicks.
Steve isn't really a joke unless you like "That isn't my daughter" and "Haha I conspire to keep wages down" and "fuck musicians I need a yacht" is comedy.
I can go on and on because I'm glad he never got to see that yacht. He was a cancer. Intellectual cancer.
Worth pointing out here that Lee Kuan Yew is perhaps the most widely praised leader of his generation. I read a book about him a couple years ago that was prefaced with endorsements from every president going back to Carter, every major Sec. of State, and so on and so forth. Trying to portray praise of Lee Kuan Yew as unhinged is itself unhinged.
For example:
> Dalio, 72, has a deep respect for the country and its leaders, people who know him said. He once even organized a group meant to govern Bridgewater and named it the Politburo, after the Chinese government’s decision-making body.
* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-20/dalio-s-c...
(Note that "Politburo" was used in many/most Communist countries, not just China.)
Is the "he" here referring to billionaire Ray Dalio or author Rob Copeland? :)
It sounds like Dalio killed his puppy. I don't know what happened but Copeland seems to hate him.
In interviews he mostly seems level headed, but intermittently he lets the façade drop.
I do wonder how he is getting the funds for such a media blitz. Does he have a tremendous number of friends in the media, is he independently wealthy, or is someone backing him?