Re:Secrets of The Great Families
by bsder on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:04PM
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> And also, none of these families except the Tagores were fantastically rich; there are thousands or millions of families richer than they are who don’t have any of their accomplishments.
This is reversing cause and effect. Extra wealth doesn't make you smarter. However, lack of wealth can sure cause "dumb".
Wealth is the prerequisite to being smart. It gets you to the starting line.
You didn't get a university degree in the late 1800's/early 1900's without quite a lot of money which gave you the leisure to not be a laborer as a child. There was a reason why there were so many immigrants coming to America in that timeframe--Europe SUCKED SHIT if you weren't wealthy.
Working in a dangerous steel mill in America was an improvement over Europe that people were willing to die for--cogitate on that.
And this is before we start considering things like "pedagogy and teaching did not have an even geographic distribution". We take for granted that if you want to become a baseball pitcher or a violinist, you can be educated in those quite a long way before you hit a ceiling that requires you to change your geographic setting. That was definitely not the case historically.
This is reversing cause and effect. Extra wealth doesn't make you smarter. However, lack of wealth can sure cause "dumb".
Wealth is the prerequisite to being smart. It gets you to the starting line.
You didn't get a university degree in the late 1800's/early 1900's without quite a lot of money which gave you the leisure to not be a laborer as a child. There was a reason why there were so many immigrants coming to America in that timeframe--Europe SUCKED SHIT if you weren't wealthy. Working in a dangerous steel mill in America was an improvement over Europe that people were willing to die for--cogitate on that.
And this is before we start considering things like "pedagogy and teaching did not have an even geographic distribution". We take for granted that if you want to become a baseball pitcher or a violinist, you can be educated in those quite a long way before you hit a ceiling that requires you to change your geographic setting. That was definitely not the case historically.