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Explanation: For those of you who were unaware, Adolf Hitler was an aspiring art student in Austria at one point. His talent was... insufficient to get into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He was rejected twice.
Imagine if he went on to become a mediocre painter who was nonetheless glazed by art professors! What a disaster that would have been! I can't think of anything worse he could have done with his life!
Imagining the present right now if any of Trumps businesses didnt go bankrupt
Desperation can indeed breed toxicity, but consider the affluent few who have never had to tread water and still choose to subjugate others.
For a lot of us, a kinder world would be enough. For a few others, jealousy and pettiness is their prevailing characteristic, no matter how equal the soceity is.
Im not saying some people are born evil, as I think these are learned behaviours, but that we as a species are somewhat easily predisposed towards corruption and that some of us succumb to it faster than others.