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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We very literally already have 1000 Motzarts and 1000 Einsteins. They are poor and working in your wearhouses and have no means or free time to pursue the fields they would accel in.

Pay your taxes Jeff.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 21 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They literally could not give a fuck if there's a Mozart out there.

This is the same shit that happened with Nazis. They decided that classical art is the only "real" art and anything that was modern at the time was "degenerate art".

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441

They want people that worship the traditional art that fuels nationalism, like Greek statues that are bleached white. They like the idea of classical art, that a perfect homogeneous society existed before them that they can re-achieve.

They hate all varieties of modern art because it's either hard to understand, or it might even conflict with their nationalism.

They want to dip their toes into what they think art should be, not embrace what it is.

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 17 points 3 hours ago

lol, literally the quote by Stephen Jay 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.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould#Quotes

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

So tired of watching these dipshit's fortunes detach them from reality.

The narcissism is so off the charts that the idea of death must be utterly terrifying to them. You know this chode is going to put himself on ice at the end in the hopes he can get a new body in the future without recognizing that the future is going to be a dystopian shithole or arid wasteland.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Either that or he'll wake up to some "re-education".

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

It ain't murder to take a billionaire's frozen head out of one of those cryo chambers and chuck it into a porta potty at a Gathering of the Juggalos. If they ever get close to figuring out how to revive those fuckers, well, it'll be time to make some decisions.

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 38 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

"I'd love to breed a trillion humans and harvest only the extreme minority of specialized high performers to help me accomplish the things I can't do myself while I ignore the conditions of life for the 99.999% who I don't consider to have any value."

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

yeah but itll be cool because its in space 😃

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

While completely overlooking how people are a product of both nature and nurture. Einstein, with an estimated iq of 160, would mean he's one in 10000 in terms of iq, implying there's already hundreds of thousands of Einstein's out in the wild we haven't found yet.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

It's like Atlas Shrugged, but even dumber.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The difference between me and Jeff Bezos is I love each and every one of pikmin and don't play favorites.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

But we need more bottle pissers.

On a space ship, everyone’s basically a bottle pisser. I think I figured it out. The Amazon warehouses are a training facility for a trillion bottle pissing space slaves. Mind=blown.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Misquote, he clearly said "one thousand Epsteins" while fondling himself

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 points 47 minutes ago

Yeah, I heard him say Epsteins as well. Didn't see the fondling part, so that day was a good day for my brain and eyes.

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

We have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. Most of them are stuck working at an Amazon warehouse.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Just look at technical death metal and progressive death metal. Most of the musicians are holding down day jobs programming. Mike Lerner is a really sad case, since he is one of the greatest metal guitarists. Works as the worlds most generic programmer in silicon valley.

Hell, even jazz and classical. I just don't know what their fucking day jobs are.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing better for packaging than those subtle piano fingers. Bonus points if they're desperate because the grant money that funded them recently ran out and they still haven't submitted their thesis.

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I swear, no one who laments our lack of Einsteins and Mozarts has spent a single second ever actually trying to make a living as a scientist or musician.

You want more Einsteins and Mozarts? Establish universal basic income. You don't even need to pay a ton. Just enough that everyone can have basic subsistence regardless of what they can earn by working. The true Einsteins and Mozarts will probably be content with just that modest level of income, living in a studio apartment forever so they can dedicate all of their time to their passion.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Name one Mozart composition or one Einstein scientific publication by title. Fucking populists.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Saw this prick talking about nurses making like 30k a year having to pay like 12k in taxes and that "it didn't make sense." Motherfucker makes billions and pays less taxes than the nurse he says shouldn't have to pay so much taxes.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

I uh... Idk, I never thought Bezos was a genius or anything, but I figured he must've been at least moderately above average in intelligence for Amazon to take off initially like it did (I do realize that all the growth for the past 2 decades and more is unrelated to him, but the actual founding part of a startup is somewhat... dependent on the founders)

But I don't think it takes a particularly smart person to figure out that we can't handle 3 more orders of magnitude of humans consuming resources that are mostly available on planet Earth. Average person should definitely figure it out. And he owns a space company. How the fuck does he not realize how infeasible it is?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

$0.02: above average intelligence is abundant. The opportunities and support that enable those people to achieve greatness (read: privilege), are not. This situation will only get worse with the like of Bezos squeezing the people that work for them. This "1000 Mozarts" line only serves to illustrate how intellectually bankrupt this person is.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

how intellectually bankrupt this person is

When you have endless money and are surrounded by people fighting to give you handjobs all day, every day you tend to lose touch with reality and common sense.

[–] slemptastrophe@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours ago

Let's focus on building the solar system with less Bezos-es.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 41 points 8 hours ago

... and 990 billion cheap, exploitable slaves, of course.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 180 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Imagine how many more Mozarts and Einsteins we could have if we removed barriers like poverty and hunger and allowed everyone to have a fair shot at life.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago

I know a guy who draws absolutely beautiful sketches, and having seen some of the paintings he "dabble with", I'm positive he could make some amazing things.

Unfortunately, all he gets to do is small sketches in his down time, because he works two jobs and has 2 kids.

Imagine how many people have an ideas for something that would make tons of people's lives better, but they can't work on it because they have to go to work and all their energy is spent just trying not to become a statistic...

[–] LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus 7 points 5 hours ago

It’s so nice to see other people with this sentiment. Even at a young age I always thought it was a little silly for only rich people to have “the best” education when there are people out there who can’t follow their passions or dreams because of various things.

So nice to see, thank you for pointing it out!

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 47 points 10 hours ago

Exactly this

We have so much untapped potential in the world because of the system he is a product of. The vast majority of people have to spend most of their time and effort on general survival. There's diminishing amounts of time and effort that average Joe can actually spend on intellectual and artistic pursuits orthogonal to their source of income. Hell, just fucking having hobbies is becoming a bit of a privileged position in 2026, which is frankly a desolate place we've managed to take civilisation.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago

See, that's the thing these guys don't want to understand. There could be a thousand generational talents like that "right fucking now*, who have these enormous gifts and won't ever be able to realize them because they gotta go to their third job so they don't fall behind on rent AGAIN.

Your Uber driver might be a virtuosic violin player who's never realized it because he's never had the opportunity to try. The cashier at Taco Bell might be an amazing painter, who can't afford to paint because every last cent has to go to one bill or another. That kid in Ghana you're watching on the TV charity commercial might be the next talent in rocketry or physics or poetry or any of a dozen other fields if they had a shot.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 106 points 10 hours ago

We probably already have thousands of them out there but they never recieved the education they would have needed to unlock their potential and or are too busy surviving in abject poverty to contribute to the advancement of humanity.

Because shitheads like him hoard all the money and do everything they can so others around them are stuck in the poverty trap so they can use them as cheap, desperate and exploitable labor.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 hours ago

What he is actually thinking is he needs more slaves for wearhouses some Amazon and it's shit working conditions has already churned through the entire labor pool in some markets.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

I thought AI was supposed to give us an infinite number of Einsteins and Mozarts. They can't even keep their own lore/propaganda straight

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

he said "a one thousand"?

what a fucking chud. speaks like he looks.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He likely said 'a thousand' but whoever wrote this article failed English and never learned to write out numbers.

The only numbers I should see in an article are things people already expect to see as numbers, like dates (dd/mm/yy) or the time of day.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t there a style rule where if it’s a number greater than ten you use digits?

Though if you say a thousand, that’s different than saying “a 1,000” which is saying “a one thousand”, which you wouldn’t write.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Not that I'm aware of, I was always taught to write out any number because it helps with the reader maintaining flow while reading. For the exact reasons we're discussing here, 'a thousand' and 'a 1,000' are functionally the same - but one breaks the readers train of thought a lot more easily than the other. Whereas dates and times are used so frequently that writing out 31/12/2026 or 10:00 AM really doesn't impact their ability to read them on a page.

At least, that's what I was taught. Maybe there's a different line of thinking I'm not aware of, though the rule you're talking about sounds like a business English rule - and I disagree with business English.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You talk about reader maintaining flow. And I think for exactly that reason you are supposed to use digits when the number is of a certain size. Like if I say, there are six hundred and seventy three buildings in the city. To me it’s much clearer to write there are 673 buildings in the city. Whatever “rule” I’m thinking of I seem to recall you spell out smaller numbers. Like you would write “there are three files” as opposed to “there are 3 files.” Everyone at work does the latter which always annoys me, though they also commit much more egregious mistakes in their emails and other writings.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Same outcome if we invested AI gambling money into education and scholarships, btw.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

JoeRoganization is the carcinization equivalent for the wealthy.

Geared up, brained down.

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 5 points 6 hours ago

Ehh, finding these mozarts and einsteins will be near impossible because their upbringing will be impoverished and school results are more dependant on wealth than intelligence.

[–] sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

these braying jackass billionaires wouldnt know genius even if it kicked them square in the ass

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I believe the propaganda here is idea that some people are born special, brighter than every one else.

The message here is not that Bezos wants a trillion humans, the message is that the majority of people are not special and will never archive greatness (like him)

Rich people love to think they belong to this special group but it’s not real, all humans have the capacity to archive greatness if only given the resources to not only survive but thrive.

If everyone had acces to free and quality education, healthcare and food we could have more than a thousand Einsteins and Mozarts right now.

Once everyone is able to archive greatness, it becomes the norm, therefore the rich no longer able to justify their wealth by claiming to be geniuses. Helping the poor thrive and become not poor is a direct threat to their ego and status.

Edit: Wholesome to realise i am the fourth person to comment this. Positivity woke!

[–] manxu@piefed.social 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You said way more than the other ones, namely that the Jeff Bezos of the world believe themselves part of a superior humanity that allows them to treat the rest like garbage.

The reason Mozart became a great composer is that he pissed on his employer's working conditions and went rogue. His Bezos treated him to a kick in the ass, literally, administered on his behalf. Allegedly.

The reason Einstein became a great physicist is that he got an outstanding public education and then worked a government job to make ends meet. The same government jobs that Bezos and Musk wanted to cut last year.

Bezos is not part of a special superhumanity. He is an extremely privileged lottery winner that is too vain to admit he got lucky and now pretends his opinion matters. As the meme states, the only useful thing he can provide is tax money.

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 hours ago

This is complete gacha thinking. "Every 10 pulls guarantees a four-star ~~character~~ intellect".

How many people must be crammed on an overdrawn planet to pull Raiden Shogun, Jeff?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 26 points 10 hours ago
[–] Triumph@fedia.io 21 points 10 hours ago

And we'd have more Mozarts and Einsteins right now if people were free from the burden of worry about survival.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A 1000 Hitlers, a 1000 Epsteins, a 1000 Bezos

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[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 9 points 9 hours ago

He doesn't want Mozart's or Einstein's, he and other parasites like him want slaves and a trillion people with the debt boot on their throats is paradise for him and hell for everyone else.

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