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Are you saying their genius was a result of their class?

• wolfram74 5y ago
  Having enough to eat and free time to think certainly didn't hurt.
• asciimov 5y ago
  Genius level intellect is fairly well distributed amount the global population. However, the opportunity for these people to add to the collective knowledge isn’t well distributed. If you look at the backgrounds of most of the well known geniuses, rare are the ones that were the children of poor or destitute people. Anecdotally, I’ve met quite a few rural poor that were hyper intelligent. The types of things that matter to them aren’t really applicable to anyone else.
• bserge 5y ago