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--Seneca
Don't know about that. He who has everyone else in his power sounds rather powerful too.
Ey who has everyone else in eir power has everyone else in the power of someone ey doesn't have control over.
Too many not-words in one sentence for me I'm afraid.
Reframed with more standard pronouns: if I have everyone else in my power, but not myself, then everyone else is in the power of someone I don't control.
In that case, most powerful is she who has herself in her own power, plus the greatest number of other people.
(I opt for Eliezer's coin flip method of gender-neutral pronoun usage, by the way.)
I'm reminded of a propositional logic class that spent some time discussing "Everybody loves my baby, but my baby don't love nobody but me."
Rephrased using an honest coin.
(I rolled my die just once because the latter two pronouns are anaphors that refer back to the first, and this statement doesn't only apply to genderqueer people. :) )