All the alphas are afflicted with textbook narcissism, which pretty much defines the alpha mindset.

Haha, I just watched a political talk show (run by a woman, not that that matters!) where a right-wing 30 (+-) year old woman was talking about Renzi as being a narcissist and then added -completely without irony, (I know they don't do irony)- "... not that being a narcissist is a bad thing to be, actually the opposite!"

All is Vanity... ;)

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty