What matters more?

They all play a significant role in the world. The thinkers envision the goals, the technologists invent the means to achieve them better, and the leaders utilize the means and take us to our goals.

It's like if the leader was the pilot, the thinker had the map, and the technologist made the plane.

I'd rather be the leader, but I'd be happy enough as the thinker. I'm not really any of them though.

It is hard to compare broad group of a leaders with broad group of technologist. There exist inventions and technology that changed world more than any greatest leaders, for example.

I would say that the leaders matter less in the end because they can't really change society on deep, meaningful level. Power is always zero sum game. If you exclude Alexander, then someone else take title of the greatest ruler. All borders and all states would be different but majority of people lives stay the same. Exclude guy who comes up with some important original ideas and they are gone forever.

None of them matter. History is a catastrophic avalanche of man's failure to become God. All historical events and persons are threaded together in a never-ending chain of causality. Not only will we never know what might have happened if, say, Einstein died in infancy, the point is: it doesn't even matter.

>>1884544
>I would say that the leaders matter less in the end because they can't really change society on deep, meaningful level.
Why don't you think so? Individuals like Alexander the Great, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, etc. all seem to still have a lasting impact on the world.

>>1884697
What exactly was their impact on lives of people?! Their empires barely outlived them if not collapsed even before their death.