Every talent unrealized is a failure of society to provide opportunity. The fact that nine billion of us can produce one billionaire investor to found one succ

Every talent unrealized is a failure of society to provide opportunity. The fact that nine billion of us can produce one billionaire investor to found one successful private rocket company in half a century of space travel is a mark against the species. We would all be immortal digital consciousnesses traversing the stars at fractions of C by now if we had managed to capture an order of magnitude more talent in previous generations.