"is it that in the past there was not a similar proportion of the brightest working on similarly pointless and wasteful problems" It is that in the past a larg

"is it that in the past there was not a similar proportion of the brightest working on similarly pointless and wasteful problems" It is that in the past a large portion of the world's brightest were working in the fields or fishing or mining or making bowls or adding up numbers as a clerk.