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[-] MelodicMischief@lemmy.ca 130 points 1 year ago

This is how I feel reading Oppenheimer's biography. He came from an affluent family and apparently never had to worry about paying the bills, being free to fully dedicate himself to the things that interested him. The guy was a genius, no doubt about that... I just feel that we would have a lot more geniuses out there if we didn't have to work so much in order to enjoy so little.

[-] theatomictruth@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

There are definitely people out there capable of major contributions to human culture and knowledge toiling in a sweat shop or picking fruit.

[-] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

  • Stephen Jay Gould
[-] rckclmbr@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

That's some Girl Next Door shit. He just want to get Samnang to the US so he can cure cancer

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well Einstein had to work in a patent office.

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