Carl Icahn Agrees With Mike Judge: Morons Will Rule
Posted by Percy Walker at Tuesday, January 16. 2007 and is filed under Billionaires,Carl Icahn,Percy on Pop Culture 
Last week saw the DVD release of Idiocracy, the unpromoted studio release written, directed and produced by Mike Judge. The movie imagines a grim future where, because of the overbreeding of morons, humanity has devolved to the point where it can't take care of itself.
Last week also saw the publication of an interview of my friend, fellow Princeton grad and billionaire financier Carl Icahn. Mr. Icahn expressed his own view of a future where morons run everything. Here's a direct quote:
The C.E.O. is the fraternity brother type who is great to have a drink with. He's a survivor and maybe not all that smart, but he works his way up the ladder in the corporation. And if you're a survivor, you never have someone beneath you who's smarter than you. So you eventually work your way to C.E.O. You have someone a little dumber than you underneath, and eventually we'll have morons running everything . . . which we're getting closer to.Here at PercyWalker.com we tie together the worlds of high finance and pop culture so you don't have to.
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