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Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners by Retric on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:22AM (#34654265)
Value production is tricky when you start influencing large numbers of people. A witty one liner a day may only be worth say 10c/month to you but * 1 million people that’s 1.2 million dollars a year.

Actually extracting that value is a different story.

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Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners by NhanH on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:05AM (#34654570)
If the earth has only a single witty one liner writer, he might bring 10c/month to people. 100000 of them and in aggregate, they probably bring negative value to society (spam).

To put it other way, you are more likely to bring value to society if you want, and focus on bringing value to society. Your will goes first, your ability then enable you to do so. Cognitive ability affects the latter more than the former.

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