Is "being remembered" or "having your name in

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Is "being remembered" or "having your name in the history books" the ultimate scam? Even if you ignore how worthwhile It is, it seems like it's 100 % hopeless to achieve. Plato, Aristotle, Darwinn, Newton, and Einstein are already hogging half the limelight and all the first two did was unfalsifiable assertions and mental masturbation.

Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Hitler: Good attempts.

Business people are never remembered. I listened to the in our time episode about George Berkeley. All he did was make up an unfalsifiable system and he will be remembered more than 10 times as much as Bill Gates, Messi, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, and Taylor Swift put together, even ignoring the University of California Berkeley completely.

I think scientists and Mathematicians are at a disadvantage altogether. You can't metaphorically provide solid foundations for people to climb higher, like George Boole or Lev Landau (random names). You need to metaphorically create a self perpetuating shit cannon that allows future scholars to splurge your shit everywhere. That's why Keynes and Friedman will be remembered more than all current Economics memorial prize winners put together.