Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: "If we had a trillion humans,we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts..."

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   Peter Gleick (petergleick@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 14:58:18 JST Peter Gleick

   Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
   The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

   The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

   Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "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".