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thecygnetcommittee:

etakeh:

Twitter post from David Wallace Wells, quoting from an article. quote, if we had a trillion humans we would have at any given time a thousand mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. The article is from finance dot yahoo dot com, headline is Jeff bezos Ellen musk say human population not nearly big enough.ALT
Post from Robert Evans responding to the above post. we have many many more than a thousand people with that potential. most of them are starving, lack access to clean water, are stuck at borders staring down the barrel of some gun, or are sheltering in place from a bombardment right nowALT
and many of the "luckier" ones are stuck working in Amazon warehouse or factories in Shenzhen or doing some other kind of hard labor for a pittance just to survive. if billionaires cared about human genius they would support taking care of people.ALT
what Musk and Bezos really want is more people beneath them. An ever widening mountain of the poor who have to pay them fealty. there's nothing else that really matters to either man. they want compulsory praise to fill the empty space inside them.ALT

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

(Stephen Gould, “The Panda’s Thumb”)