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All ways that are extraordinary, not necessarily moral.

Looking at human history, perhaps they are not so extraordinary after all.

Then add "successfully" to the criterion. Successfully screwing people over on an epic scale is actually fairly rare, if only because so many people try and there's only so much success you can have that way.

Does it really have to be on an epic scale? What if you kill just one person to get rich? Or what if you ruin the lives of just a dozen or two? Or perhaps you just cheat one person out of everything he owns?

That's certainly not epic. Might not even make the paper.

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