self-ruinous

Updated: May 28, 2025

Surely Einstein's contributions to human knowledge and welfare far exceed anything ever accomplished by sundry businessmen? Fortunately, this discrepancy is cause for constructive jealousy, emulation, and imitation. It can, however, lead to an orgy of destructive and self-ruinous envy. Entrepreneurs recombine natural and human resources in novel ways.

Samuel Vaknin - Capitalistic Musings