alt Hacker News“Careless People” lays it out pretty well – you either need to make the right friends in college at an Ivy League or you need to be friends with someone else who did. If you made the mistake of not being born into a family that groomed you since birth for the ivy leagues then sorry, that ship has sailed already.
And then if you didn't make that mistake, you end up as either:
a) champaign socialist
b) head of ethics at OpenAI and not really listened to because you're really probably (a)