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0 pointskubb1y ago0 comments

I feel like 98% were fox hunting, gambling and whatnot, but the 2% gave us William Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and Lord Byron. If the number of idlers increases so will the number of productive ones.

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vessenes1y ago· 1 in thread

Yeah that’s my rough ratio too. Think Athens long ago: probably like max 5% in an ideal (well for male non slaves) society.

kubbOP1y ago

It’s kinda like startup math. Most will fail but the few successes will offset the failures.

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