Genius level intellect is fairly well distributed amount the global population. However, the opportunity for these people to add to the collective knowledge isn

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.