Most Influential Humans Ever

[Haroki]

Quote from Ricter:



But I agree, Marx goes on the list, clearly. But if not him, someone else would surely have outed and described the power elite that replaced feudalism.

The same goes for a lot of the other guys mentioned too.

Wright brothers were the first to fly, but others were working on it.

Einstein's contributions would likely have been made by someone else.

The same could be said about nearly all on the list, from what I can tell.

But it's the turn that Marxism took that distinguishes it from others. It's absolutely a failed idea - that revolution must proceed socialism.

But many have taken that route, not as a road to some sort of "nirvana" that socialism promises, but as an excuse for a power grab "for the benefit of the proletariat".

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Haroki:

The same goes for a lot of the other guys mentioned too.

Wright brothers were the first to fly, but others were working on it.

Einstein's contributions would likely have been made by someone else.

The same could be said about nearly all on the list, from what I can tell.

But it's the turn that Marxism took that distinguishes it from others. It's absolutely a failed idea - that revolution must proceed socialism.

But many have taken that route, not as a road to some sort of "nirvana" that socialism promises, but as an excuse for a power grab "for the benefit of the proletariat".

Agree with it all. Today we don't think of labor as the "proletariat", that's too old-fashioned, too Marxist, no, they're just "the public". Makes all of us sound merely like part of the same happy class, lol. And no need to "grab" power, just convince that public they benefit via the invisible hand, and trickle down. If not those, then maybe they'll win the lottery.

 

[Banjo]

The OP's list is just a bunch of political hacks and thugs save Oppenheimer who couldn'thave done his work with out Einsteins work.

The people who alter the course of human existence through their work are the scientist. Forget about what the average badly educated American thinks. As has been true all through time they will be run over by science.

Einstein
Tesla
Marie Curie
Archimedes
Galileo

There are others of course and then those that created the actual applications, Watt' s steam engine, Rudolf Diesel, Wright Bros, a long list of applications but the seeds were sown and new concepts of reality grew in the minds of a very few . The genesis of the bursts forward , expansion into what we take for granted as the gizmos of our lives.

 

[TraderZones]

Quote from RCG Trader:

No, unretired has better defined the exercise.

See his definition.

Add your contribution.

I agree with the others, your arbitrary criteria are useless and stupid. This has been done, and you need to get off the panel.

But I will nominate you for the least influential.

 

[jficquette]

Quote from Haroki:

I'd say Karl Marx.

Who else can be pointed to that was responsible for a "way of life" that is responsible for as much brutality and misery that started was by his Manifesto?

The elimination of Muhammad from history would affect the World in a more positive way then any other person on record.

 

[William Rennick]

Not even close for the top spot is;

#1 Jesus Christ
#2 Alexander the Great, Adolf Hitler (tie)
#3 Elvis Presley, George Patton (tie)
#4 John Wayne, Chuck Norris(tie)
#5 Dale Earnhardt, Walter Payton, Muhammad Ali,Babe Ruth, Larry Bird, (tie)
#6 Ron Jeremy, Joe Polski(honorable mention)

 

[jficquette]

Quote from William Rennick:

Not even close for the top spot is;

#1 Jesus Christ
#2 Alexander the Great, Adolf Hitler (tie)
#3 Elvis Presley
#4 John Wayne
#5 Dale Earnhardt

Chuck Norris tie with John Wayne

 

[William Rennick]

Quote from jficquette:

Chuck Norris tie with John Wayne

List amended, good call!

 

[omegapoint]

Bi Sheng
George Boole
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Henry Bessemer
Nikola Tesla
Henry Ford
Hippocrates
Rene Descartes
Leonardo da Vinci

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from TraderZones:

I agree with the others, your arbitrary criteria are useless and stupid. This has been done, and you need to get off the panel.

But I will nominate you for the least influential.

TraderZones, you will forever be recognized as the bitter failed trader who tried spam and was shut down.

Therefore it is not needed for me to come with some witty remark to antagonize you, the truth about u is punishment enuf.

Caveat Emptor