I imagine being hyper-successful would be a very lonely path.

Imagine, starting off just like everyone else.

Then you become radically more powerful: famously rich or successful.

After that point, you know that everyone you meet is just pandering to you, so you don't trust them.

Who do you cling to?

The people you knew before you were hyper successful.

And also people who have been through the same thing as you, your peers.

Those peers probably have a more similar experience to you, so you cling to them more tightly than people you knew before.

But if there are structural things that are more common in that path (e.g. personality traits, or blindspots, that all of you share) you'll now have an echo chamber.

That echo chamber can self-accelerate and remove you from the ground truth reality.

All of you in the peer group are successful, and you all only really trust each other.

Some weird things can emerge out of that.