> or you were like 99.999999% of humanity and had no chance at exceptionalism they would be noticed. I see where you’re coming from but those numbers are way o

> or you were like 99.999999% of humanity and had no chance at exceptionalism they would be noticed. I see where you’re coming from but those numbers are way off. Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt weren’t the children of peasants but neither were they nobles. They were relatively privileged but well over 1% of the population were as well off. Notary’s or miller’s son in a pre industrial society is bourgeois not one in less than a million.