Very dangerous, your common narcissist. Apart from such acute self-obsession exerting downward pressure on social cohesion and willingness to contribute to public goods, they're a breeding ground for sociopathy, starting out banal and moving towards malignant.
(Also, quite a few of them appear to have children as a means to their personal fulfillment, and so manage to fuck up the upcoming generation, too.)
The Trouble with Narcissists is that they're by their very nature unwilling to work with others (their inferiors) to get what they want though, isn't it?
Well, a narcissist does have that problem with subordination,, but as long as they can keep up an image of being a leader, a major figure, a Person of Significance in the Struggle, yadda yadda, it can pretty much work, right? Or they can find minions to follow Her Awesomeness, the Maximum Leader.
And even leaving that aside, just because they can't effectively work with each other doesn't preclude emergent effects, anyway.
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(Also, quite a few of them appear to have children as a means to their personal fulfillment, and so manage to fuck up the upcoming generation, too.)
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It is so hard to get people to acknowledge the awesomeness of me in a timely manner!
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*is puzzled, AWESOMELY*
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And even leaving that aside, just because they can't effectively work with each other doesn't preclude emergent effects, anyway.