Imagine how many more Mozarts and Einsteins we could have if we removed barriers like poverty and hunger and allowed everyone to have a fair shot at life.
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Exactly this
We have so much untapped potential in the world because of the system he is a product of. The vast majority of people have to spend most of their time and effort on general survival. There's diminishing amounts of time and effort that average Joe can actually spend on intellectual and artistic pursuits orthogonal to their source of income. Hell, just fucking having hobbies is becoming a bit of a privileged position in 2026, which is frankly a desolate place we've managed to take civilisation.
See, that's the thing these guys don't want to understand. There could be a thousand generational talents like that "right fucking now*, who have these enormous gifts and won't ever be able to realize them because they gotta go to their third job so they don't fall behind on rent AGAIN.
Your Uber driver might be a virtuosic violin player who's never realized it because he's never had the opportunity to try. The cashier at Taco Bell might be an amazing painter, who can't afford to paint because every last cent has to go to one bill or another. That kid in Ghana you're watching on the TV charity commercial might be the next talent in rocketry or physics or poetry or any of a dozen other fields if they had a shot.
I know a guy who draws absolutely beautiful sketches, and having seen some of the paintings he "dabble with", I'm positive he could make some amazing things.
Unfortunately, all he gets to do is small sketches in his down time, because he works two jobs and has 2 kids.
Imagine how many people have an ideas for something that would make tons of people's lives better, but they can't work on it because they have to go to work and all their energy is spent just trying not to become a statistic...
It’s so nice to see other people with this sentiment. Even at a young age I always thought it was a little silly for only rich people to have “the best” education when there are people out there who can’t follow their passions or dreams because of various things.
So nice to see, thank you for pointing it out!
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We very literally already have 1000 Motzarts and 1000 Einsteins. They are poor and working in your wearhouses and have no means or free time to pursue the fields they would accel in.
Pay your taxes Jeff.
They literally could not give a fuck if there's a Mozart out there.
This is the same shit that happened with Nazis. They decided that classical art is the only "real" art and anything that was modern at the time was "degenerate art".
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441
They want people that worship the traditional art that fuels nationalism, like Greek statues that are bleached white. They like the idea of classical art, that a perfect homogeneous society existed before them that they can re-achieve.
They hate all varieties of modern art because it's either hard to understand, or it might even conflict with their nationalism.
They want to dip their toes into what they think art should be, not embrace what it is.
We probably already have thousands of them out there but they never recieved the education they would have needed to unlock their potential and or are too busy surviving in abject poverty to contribute to the advancement of humanity.
Because shitheads like him hoard all the money and do everything they can so others around them are stuck in the poverty trap so they can use them as cheap, desperate and exploitable labor.
lol, literally the quote by Stephen Jay Gould.
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.
"I'd love to breed a trillion humans and harvest only the extreme minority of specialized high performers to help me accomplish the things I can't do myself while I ignore the conditions of life for the 99.999% who I don't consider to have any value."
yeah but itll be cool because its in space 😃
While completely overlooking how people are a product of both nature and nurture. Einstein, with an estimated iq of 160, would mean he's one in 10000 in terms of iq, implying there's already hundreds of thousands of Einstein's out in the wild we haven't found yet.
It's like Atlas Shrugged, but even dumber.
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... and 990 billion cheap, exploitable slaves, of course.
We already have a 1000 mozarts but half of them are starving right now and then out of the other half 80% couldnt pursue their dreams
And Bezos is pushing for genAI, so they will be pushed out by genAI slop.
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.
- Steven Jay Gould
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We have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. Most of them are stuck working at an Amazon warehouse.
Just look at technical death metal and progressive metal. Most of the musicians are holding down day jobs programming. Mike Lerner is a really sad case, since he is one of the greatest metal guitarists. Works as the worlds most generic programmer in silicon valley.
Hell, even jazz and classical. I just don't know what their fucking day jobs are.
Nothing better for packaging than those subtle piano fingers. Bonus points if they're desperate because the grant money that funded them recently ran out and they still haven't submitted their thesis.
I swear, no one who laments our lack of Einsteins and Mozarts has spent a single second ever actually trying to make a living as a scientist or musician.
You want more Einsteins and Mozarts? Establish universal basic income. You don't even need to pay a ton. Just enough that everyone can have basic subsistence regardless of what they can earn by working. The true Einsteins and Mozarts will probably be content with just that modest level of income, living in a studio apartment forever so they can dedicate all of their time to their passion.
How many Mozarts and Einsteins are pissing in bottles in your warehouses, Jeff?
To put it another way: we don't need a trillion people to find more Master Artists and Master Scientists, we need more Equality of Opportunity and a system that rewards Art and Science, both the very opposite what has made this "gentleman" as rich as he is, of what he promotes with his own words and using the parts of Press he bought and what he tells the politicians he has in this pocked to do.
He is literally one of the biggest individual forces pushing away from the very outcome he claims to want.
The hypocrisy of this asshole and others like him is mind-boggling.
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Did you guys know it's possible to be rich and also just shut the fuck up?
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I believe the propaganda here is idea that some people are born special, brighter than every one else.
The message here is not that Bezos wants a trillion humans, the message is that the majority of people are not special and will never archive greatness (like him)
Rich people love to think they belong to this special group but it’s not real, all humans have the capacity to archive greatness if only given the resources to not only survive but thrive.
If everyone had acces to free and quality education, healthcare and food we could have more than a thousand Einsteins and Mozarts right now.
Once everyone is able to archive greatness, it becomes the norm, therefore the rich no longer able to justify their wealth by claiming to be geniuses. Helping the poor thrive and become not poor is a direct threat to their ego and status.
Edit: Wholesome to realise i am the fourth person to comment this. Positivity woke!
You said way more than the other ones, namely that the Jeff Bezos of the world believe themselves part of a superior humanity that allows them to treat the rest like garbage.
The reason Mozart became a great composer is that he pissed on his employer's working conditions and went rogue. His Bezos treated him to a kick in the ass, literally, administered on his behalf. Allegedly.
The reason Einstein became a great physicist is that he got an outstanding public education and then worked a government job to make ends meet. The same government jobs that Bezos and Musk wanted to cut last year.
Bezos is not part of a special superhumanity. He is an extremely privileged lottery winner that is too vain to admit he got lucky and now pretends his opinion matters. As the meme states, the only useful thing he can provide is tax money.
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So tired of watching these dipshit's fortunes detach them from reality.
The narcissism is so off the charts that the idea of death must be utterly terrifying to them. You know this chode is going to put himself on ice at the end in the hopes he can get a new body in the future without recognizing that the future is going to be a dystopian shithole or arid wasteland.
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You know we already probably have a bunch of Mozarts and Einsteins peeing in bottles to avoid getting dinged while driving Amazon Prime trucks because that's the only way they can get by.
They're almost certainly is a bunch of geniuses who were never appreciated because they spend their entire lives trying to get food and water because they were unfortunate enough to be born into Ethiopia. We could feed and house and educate these people if we really wanted to, to the benefit of not just themselves, but the entire species if they did turn out to be the next Einstein. Instead the likes of Jeff Bezos go on podcasts and talk about how wonderful the distant future is going to be, while at the same time being utterly unprepared to do anything about the problems we have right now.
Is space Karen actually paid his taxes we probably could build a base on Mars with that money.
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$0.02: above average intelligence is abundant. The opportunities and support that enable those people to achieve greatness (read: privilege), are not. This situation will only get worse with the like of Bezos squeezing the people that work for them. This "1000 Mozarts" line only serves to illustrate how intellectually bankrupt this person is.
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A 1000 Hitlers, a 1000 Epsteins, a 1000 Bezos
Imagine a world with just a million people, 0 hitlers, 0 epsteins, 0 Bezos, 0 Trumps, 0 musks.
That's interesting. I think we should have 0 'Jeff Bezos'es in the solar system.
We almost certainly have 1,000 Einsteins and 1,000 Mozarts alive today. A relevant quote from 1979:
"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."
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And we'd have more Mozarts and Einsteins right now if people were free from the burden of worry about survival.
modern einstein is trying to develop new ways to keep people hooked on a social media scroll. modern mozart is producing kpop or playing jazz/fusion in some club where they make $40 a night and then dying broke (like allan holdsworth).
but it's true that most great brains probably never develop properly because the system tries its hardest to keep them stupid and in poverty.
the modern media landscape is all nepo babies and what does it get you? it gets you fuck all; everything is pathetic from top to bottom in every single artform but we're acting like shit is normal.
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He doesn't want Mozart's or Einstein's, he and other parasites like him want slaves and a trillion people with the debt boot on their throats is paradise for him and hell for everyone else.
I strongly disagree. We need to focus more on quality of life than population. If humanity grows to a trillion people 999.9 billion of us will be living in coffin-sized apartments and eating that runny white goop that fed people in the Matrix.
I would rather have 1 billion humans and everyone lives the American Dream for real.
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Saw this prick talking about nurses making like 30k a year having to pay like 12k in taxes and that "it didn't make sense." Motherfucker makes billions and pays less taxes than the nurse he says shouldn't have to pay so much taxes.
Misquote, he clearly said "one thousand Epsteins" while fondling himself
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Funny how he also happens to be one of the worlds largest employers and also has one of the biggest amounts of customers. Wonder if he secretly would like anything else from those 9,999,999,998,000 people.
Human beings can only live abput two years at most in micro gravity. On return after said two years they are effectively paralyzed and have to endure months of physiotherapy just to be able to walk again.
We will never "live" in space or the "solar system", the only place we can live is this planet and anybody telling you otherwise is lying to you.
They do want you in micro gravity though. Besos has on his blue origin website that they plan on having heavy industry in orbit and basically the prols will work in orbit so the planet can remain clean for the rich.
We could have a THOUSAND Mozarts if we ~~FUNDED youth Education!~~ ~~FUNDED youth Healthcare!~~ ~~FUNDED the Arts!~~ Had LOTS of ~~Workers!~~ Babies!
What he is actually thinking is he needs more slaves for wearhouses some Amazon and it's shit working conditions has already churned through the entire labor pool in some markets.
Think about how many Einsteins and Mozarts all over the world who he and the other billionaires have killed through their policies and greed
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I can never take anyone who complains about "Eco Fascists" that want a lower human population seriously because I always have to consider if they're getting their views downstream of Bezos or Musk. The Elite want higher populations so we have to fight each other. Every time in history when there's been a workers deficit, the workers got more right.
This is complete gacha thinking. "Every 10 pulls guarantees a four-star ~~character~~ intellect".
How many people must be crammed on an overdrawn planet to pull Raiden Shogun, Jeff?
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