There absolutely are great people and geniuses in every generation. There always will be, since both terms are relative comparisons to contemporaries.
Great people and geniuses tend not to be the sort of people who are drawn to exploiting others for profit or political power, so you can mostly safely assume anyone who is a billionaire or a career politician is neither great nor genius.
It might be acceptable … might be … if there were any actual ‘Great men’ or even ‘Geniuses’ in our current generation. There are none.
We instead reward mediocrity and place emphasis on wealth and prestige rather than in anything that resembles intelligence.
There absolutely are great people and geniuses in every generation. There always will be, since both terms are relative comparisons to contemporaries.
Great people and geniuses tend not to be the sort of people who are drawn to exploiting others for profit or political power, so you can mostly safely assume anyone who is a billionaire or a career politician is neither great nor genius.