I don’t think the comment was necessarily to dunk on Ethiopia per se as much as to make a point. The person who worked out at least a theoretical model for faster than light travel was Mexican. So we are obviously not dealing with this situation in which the most intellectual unnecessarily born into western society.
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indepndnt@lemmy.world 8 months agoHow many Einsteins have we missed out on because they were born in America to a working class or poor family or as a person in a marginalized group?
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Less than in Ethiopia
indepndnt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably, I didn’t mean to make it a competition. In both cases it’s a nonzero number and every one is a tragedy.