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This isn't addressed to OP, I'm pissing on Calvin's premise:
Historically influential power can be gotten by being good: Jonas Salk, MLK Jr, Ghandi, Darwin, some philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, etc. Unfortunately there's a significant section of the population who don't like good people (possibly due to foiling).
But assuming none of us are getting out of life alive, personally it seems like it's worth risking being a historic level of good versus clinging to the status quo for an extra decade or two without the hope of making a difference.
In Multilevel Selection evolutionary theory there's selection at the selfish gene and individual level, but also at group, population, species, etc levels. Those latter levels serta contribute game theory value to the community which is at least a definition of good (or moral).
Power isn't inherently bad is the minimum thing I'm trying to demonstrate.
No, OP changed it to Calvin because someone else pointed out the other guy was literally a fascist.
Also TIL you can change an image for another in an edit on Lemmy (you couldn’t on Reddit).