Comment by nonrandomstring

> It's implausible to me that we're simultaneously both highly paid geniuses and clueless tools.

It can happen to the best of us [1].

    "" I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military
    service as a member of this country's most agile military force,
    the Marine Corps.  I served in all commissioned ranks from Second
    Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most
    of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for
    Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a
    gangster for capitalism. "" - Gen. Smedley Butler

[1] https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm