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Yes. Good point. This is my intuitive feeling as well. An extreme example of this is Paul Erdős (of Erdős number fame) who did not care about any material poses
by berkeleyjunk 7y ago
Yes. Good point. This is my intuitive feeling as well. An extreme example of this is Paul Erdős (of Erdős number fame) who did not care about any material posessions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
- claudeganon 7y agoYes and Einstein was famously a socialist and egalitarian. The ability to create new knowledge would seem to require thinking beyond the status quo, not maximally optimizing one’s place within it.