As far as I can discern, how far you ascend up the ladder in any industry has nothing to do with how smart or talented you are. It's about how USEFUL to those in power you are. Being a smooth-talking, sociopathic brainlet is infinitely more helpful in modern society than being a truthful autist. In fact, if you're TOO smart the power structure will actively sabotage you and keep you down if you present too much of a threat.
That's a real redpill to swallow; not only are the people who run our society not good people, THEY AREN'T EVEN SMART. If they were, they wouldn't have gotten destroyed by a bunch of jerkoffs on the internet.