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Seriously, every single one of us being on HN is the product of being stupidly lucky to be born where we were and be typing on whatever we are. Millions of pot
by zanny 8y ago
Seriously, every single one of us being on HN is the product of being stupidly lucky to be born where we were and be typing on whatever we are.
Millions of potential Einsteins have lived and died as subsistence farmers or worse throughout human history. If any of us were born fifty thousand years ago we would not be savant geniuses bringing about the agricultural era - if we even lived to adulthood (highly unlikely) we would have spent our days chasing gazelle to exhaustion to survive just like the rest of mankind.