Mark Andrew Price
@pricelaborecon.bsky.social
Salt Lake City born. Current Pennsylvanian (Carlisle). Labor economist. Flower planter, runner (recently back at it), Dad. Signal: price_laborecon.68
Reposted by Mark Andrew Price
A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
Reposted by Mark Andrew Price
There’s an amount of money—I am not sure of the exact amount, but it is when one never needs to ever worry about financial matters ever again—that permanently perverts the mind because one can, quite literally, do whatever they so wish with no repercussions… their lawyers will find a way.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
There’s an amount of money—I am not sure of the exact amount, but it is when one never needs to ever worry about financial matters ever again—that permanently perverts the mind because one can, quite literally, do whatever they so wish with no repercussions… their lawyers will find a way.