In my youth I was under the all too common delusion that Great Men were to thank for most of society's innovations. Eventually I noticed that the supposedly greatest men of our modern times got to their position of influence and power largely by taking things. It's harder to outright take material goods like land and money, since we live in a society founded on property deeds and private capital, backed by the right to protect those valuables with deadly force. But with the slightest bit of p...
