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Just read that Bezos' motivation for building space colonies with "trillions" of people in them is to produce "1 000 Mozarts and 1 000 Einstieins" in the coming centuries.
He could have that result in two generations if he focused on redistributing wealth instead.
To quote Gould: "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."