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Re:Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? by centimeter on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:14PM (#24934405)
Investors already did the work for those wages - you just don’t intuitively understand deferred consumption.

The closest thing to French nobility we have today is probably people with government sinecures.

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Re:Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? by rmah on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:09PM (#24935120)
If having ancestors that ran the violent gangs that terrorized, plundered and murdered their way into a protection racket over the locals is "work", then sure.
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