Strong belief, strongly & long held: geniuses from the Renaissance to the early XXth century came predominantly from the aristocratic class because they had access to both tutoring and the means to focus on hard problems. I just found this article which articulates the argument convincingly

Strong belief, strongly & long held: geniuses from the Renaissance to the early XXth century came predominantly from the aristocratic class because they had access to both tutoring and the means to focus on hard problems. I just found this article which articulates the argument convincingly https://tinyurl.com/ys9wryjh

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I really dislike this arg and it feels like cope

counterexamples are so easy:
- Ramunajan
- Leonardo's parents not married
- Mozart was child labor, crossing Continent in carriages
- Ben Franklin one of 17 kids, self-taught, far from an aristocrat
- Alexander Hamilton son of a whore
- Henry Ford a farmer's kid