i wonder how many mozarts are mining cobalt in the congo right now
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
Was scanning for this quote.
Apparently not enough.
We probably already have several ‘Mozarts’ at any one time, but due to the class system and the lack of opportunity they’re probably working in some alienating factory trying to scrape by without the time or money or access to learning and materials to engage in their creative endeavours. It’s one of the greatest tragedies of capitalism; the wasted human potential.
IMO this can become bad thinking even though it’s true
A person or group of people need not have the potential of Mozart, or Ramanujan, or Terence Tao in order to justify their emancipation
Objectivism’s free-market faith completely betrays it when we realize just how many exceptional people are lost because we as a society pummel them with menial labor, or dismiss them as ‘the help’ based on their gender or skin color.
A giant part of Mozart’s genius came from his early exposure to just monumental amounts of music. As it turns out, giving a child perfect pitch and training them to play the violin before they can read the alphabet are rather mechanical endeavors that we can now do pretty reliably given a very early start, the money to pay for the programs, many of which aren’t super expensive, and access to venues that will make that child’s abilities useful. It has little to do with proclivity or genetics. Some will take to it quicker than others, but most kids can do this.
The fact is that most such child prodigies do not go on to be master composers or even professional violinists, but those that do have a huge head start on mastering what would normally take someone until much later in life to pull off.
How many Mozarts do we lose because of capitalism, I wonder?
How many Mozarts already exist and have made music equivalent or superior to that of Mozart, but simply aren’t well known due to never becoming a European meme in the 1700s?
what he actually means is he wants 1 trillion white people in his 1000 year reich
Or OR or OR hear me out
Instead of freeing one half of one percent of people from doing all-consuming menial labor day in and day out, we could free a hundred percent of people. That’s already 500 Mozarts!
Motzart
Not Motzart
It’s probably well under 0.5% tbh, except maybe in parts of the imperial core
I should say like, enough for a serious hobby. Everyone should have what 3-4 hours of work per day at this point and then can go try to be Mozart, and once you’re up there you can go full time
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thosuandmillions ofMozartslithium miners and battery factory workers”Ah yes…a bunch of German operas will fix this pickle
Just to be that guy: most of Mozart’s operas were in Italian.
God damnit… this is my fault for riffing off the dome before coffee
The pickle is our inability to grow. Bezos is describing the value of solving that problem.
A trillion people would only strain the environment even more.
Bozo wants to put them all on a space tube so that way we will have a trillion long boned belters to be racist against.
Even with nuclear fusion, the waste heat would just cause global warming if we had that many people to provide for
Almost all the energy coming out of that plant would become heat after being used
Fostering human greatness in improving their material reality? Sounds like pinko fucking bullshit, if you ask me the Great Man™ is a natural one in a billion phenomena that comes with his giga rare skull shape
Every capitalist secretly wants to bring back chattel slavery and they become more deranged each and every day they can’t do so.
The material conditions that created Mozart were opulent, it’d be better to just do luxury communism
Why do I get the feeling this is that dipshit 'subtly hinting at his horniness and desire to become epstein 2
You’re biased to the point of derangement?
Honestly I have no idea how you got that from this.
Fuck it, I say we skip the Dark Age of Technology and go straight to the Age of Strife.
Reverse Malthusism?
We already have more than a thousand mozarts, tons of great artists youll never hear of with the same level of mastery
