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@HistoPol @adriandaub @davetroy

Moreover, all of those characters had partners and/or foils to help and share and strive for and against. The tech billionaires that I see, not so much. Bezos and Gates have to some extent, but... Well, those relationships didn't survive the pandemic.

@HistoPol @adriandaub @davetroy And Heinlein's DD Harriman. They, I think, lack even the limited (necessarily for fictional characters) empathy shown by those characters.

I suspect Jubal Henshaw and Lazarus Long play into their self images as well. All in all, my gut feeling is that Heinlein may be the strongest driver of their self-mythologizing, but they still seem to miss out on his empathy and anti-authoritarianism..