What about people laboring in the fields or Cambodia or a sweatshop in Thailand even today. There must be many geniuses who have lived and died in drudgery. Th

What about people laboring in the fields or Cambodia or a sweatshop in Thailand even today. There must be many geniuses who have lived and died in drudgery. The explosion of science in the late 1800s was largely the work of a over moneyed and underworked class of second sons and landowning clergy. They had lots of free time, education and wealth to explore their ideas.