Thanks to American oligarchy, Jensen Huang’s midlife crisis is a problem for all of us | Moira Donegan

At a time when individual men wield massive power, the ramifications of the Nvidia CEO's affair could be enormous

One of the reasons you want to distribute power and responsibility in powerful organizations and high-stakes enterprises is so that the narcissism or myopia of one man do not come to carry outsized consequences.

When power is spread out across multiple people, it matters less if one of those people is prone to flattery, or in the midst of a midlife crisis, or perhaps just a bit stupid; the limits on his power become limits on the fallout of his character flaws.