Ya know, no matter what great things you've done, how smart you are or how much money you have, at the end of the day you're only as good as your character.
Henry Ford made cars affordable and easy to manufacture. He paid a good wage to his workers...
..and he was such an anti-Semite that freakin' Hitler gave him a medal.
Charles Lindberg, aviation hero!...was an outspoken racist, anti-Semite, and white supremacist.
Guglielmo Marconi invented wireless radio...and he was an Italian Fascist.
Christopher Columbus discovered (for Europe) an entire new continent....but he was complicit in the murder of the indigenous people here.
Some of our most righteous church leaders, of all denominations, even Popes, were thieves, liars, pedophiles and caused the deaths (either by edict or complicity) of thousands...if not millions, of innocent people.
I could go on and on, but you get the point.
Today we know better than to believe our heroes were necessarily good people, so you'd think today's innovators and heroes would take a lesson from history and try to be on the right side of ethics and morality?
Apparently not. Heady with their success and wealth they (most of them it seems) look down at those less fortunate who have lifted them up.
