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Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners by actually_a_dog on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:58PM (#34669988)
Do you think Steve Jobs could have done any of the things he did 30 years prior?

Haber and Borlaug? Yeah, I know they bear a lot of responsibility for overconsumption in the world today.

Likewise for every single person you named. You couldn’t have done what you did had you been born a serf in 1375, and had you been so born, I would wager nobody would know your name even 10 years after you died.

No, sir, you didn’t build that.

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Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners by WalterBright on Sunday February 05, 2023 @10:21PM (#34672899)
> any of the things he did

I see you admit Jobs did it. Oops!

> what you did

You admit what I did, too. Oops!

> you didn’t

Too late!

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