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   Scott Santens (scottsantens@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 05:15:09 JST Scott Santens

   We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love.

   What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 16:14:15 JST FoolishOwl

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     @scottsantens “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, scientist who actually knew what he was talking about