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Comment by alecfreudenberg

Often times great ambition requires moral concessions that are untenable even in the face of the end result.

Politics is a helpful lens. Either you compromise and muddy the purity of the result, or you take the high risk path of being uncompromising and greatly reduce the odds of achieving any result at all.

When facing this, many individuals optimize for lower-risk self-fulfillment over great ambition.

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