Legacy is an illusion. Your genes are dissipated in a few generations. Even if elon had 100 kids in 10 generations, the expected genetic input from any single ancestor is about 0.1%. He would have to create a breeding program that would last through generations like aristocracy has done in the past. Your cultural input is also a product of the times you lived in. If einstein had died as a boy there were many others ready to “discover” special relativity or on the cusp. Same for Newton. So even the greatest individual catalysts of human progress had peers. Focusing on legacy is a mind disease adjacent to narcissism.
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