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Even Einstein had to eat. He still had to have his trash collected, his bad hair still needed cutting.

You mistake talent for worth.

If Einstein had to spend his days finding food, making his own clothes, fashioning his own shoes, he wouldn’t be ‘Einstein.’

Specialized labor works. It is in that sense that egalitarianism is a viable concept.

Thought experiment: If a shop of talented woodworkers hires someone to answer the phone, do the paperwork, sweep the floors, etc,, thus giving more time to the woodworkers to actually work wood, isn’t that someone, in effect—insofar as the shop is now producing more output—a ‘woodworker’ too? If they had hired an actual talented woodworker their output would have gone up too. So, what’s the difference?

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Johnny R. O'Neill
Johnny R. O'Neill

Written by Johnny R. O'Neill

Driving the notion that awareness is a creative endeavor. Somebody has to.

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