> If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins We'd also have 1,000 Hitlers and 1,000 Breiviks. Just sayin'

> If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins We'd also have 1,000 Hitlers and 1,000 Breiviks. Just sayin'. Aside from the fact that you can use his argument in exactly the opposite way, this kind of stuff doesn't scale linearly anyway; certainly when it comes to music there's already far more talent out there than any human being can reasonably listen to. We also need to wonder if we really want a musical world dominated by "Mozarts". We also had "1,000 Einsteins" in the 20th century already. Most people here can probably name a few dozen physicists on at least the same level as Einstein. Then there's probably quite a few "lesser (or unknown) known geniuses", people working in other fields, etc. etc. This might scale a bit better than music, but it's not clear to me this has that much potential for scaling either, because a lot of discoveries aren't a "just genius working in his office", but require complex machinery and all of that. We'd also have to build a few dozen LHCs. Bezos views on all of this seem almost shockingly simplistic.