[Amadeus]

The authors of this book got the definition of alpha all wrong. They are headstrong, stir up things, loud, but they are not always the leaders and people who shake things up in a productive way.
For example, take a large plant where they make cars that have a couple of thousand employees. You can't tell me that there are not any beer drinking, loud, opinionated alpha males on the floor of that plant without a leadership role. A lot of of them are not in a leadership role or could never dream of being in a leadership role. They are lazy, tired, washed up, and maybe want to be the leader, but are not organized, focused, and politcal enough to be a leader.
Out of a population of 300 million, I bet you at least 100 million, or maybe a little less, are alpha males. Alpha males have been studied for decades and can actually be psychologically diagnosed.
According to this author, it seems they are only pointing out to a few thousand people, or maybe less, in our entire history. Nonsense.