I've heard both Melon Husk and Lil' Jeffy Kisses repeat this sentiment. Where do they even get their figure? Something like 120 billion humans have existed, ever, and there has been only one Einstein and one Mozart. 1/120B * 1T = 8.5.

Factor in the widespread nutritional and medical resource shortages that would come along with one trillion humans, and I'm confident that number would drop to zero.

It seems to be that we'd be better off ensuring the future of humanity and focusing on science. Surely it would be quicker to experiment with genetics to grow an Einstein than it would be to implement a trillion-human breeding lottery hoping to find one.

We almost certainly have 1,000 Einsteins and 1,000 Mozarts alive today. A relevant quote from 1979:

"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

Stories like these from people like these are always delivered through the lens of what's best for business. This is propaganda.

Think about how many Einsteins and Mozarts all over the world who he and the other billionaires have killed through their policies and greed

Humans would find a way to destroy space through greed and corruption.

The only reason ghouls like Bezos want a bigger population is because they want more people to exploit, especially artists and scientists.

You know we already probably have a bunch of Mozarts and Einsteins peeing in bottles to avoid getting dinged while driving Amazon Prime trucks because that's the only way they can get by.

Most billionaires are the scums of the world, hording the wealth and spending it on stupid stuff while his employees who do the actual work get little to no credit and are payed much less.

Did you guys know it's possible to be rich and also just shut the fuck up?

That unfortunate reality that their enormous wealth has been mostly down to population growth and psychopathic greed, and not because they were born with magical business brains.

We already have a 1000 mozarts but half of them are starving right now and then out of the other half 80% couldnt pursue their dreams

modern einstein is trying to develop new ways to keep people hooked on a social media scroll. modern mozart is producing kpop or playing jazz/fusion in some club where they make $40 a night and then dying broke (like allan holdsworth).

but it's true that most great brains probably never develop properly because the system tries its hardest to keep them stupid and in poverty.

the modern media landscape is all nepo babies and what does it get you? it gets you fuck all; everything is pathetic from top to bottom in every single artform but we're acting like shit is normal.

He says '1000 Einsteins', but surely thinks '1000 Bezoses' because of course he thinks he's a genius, and because there'll be more new faces in the billionaire paedophilic orgies.

With proper resource management (up to and beyond availing and provisioning all emancipatory technologies), such that we could build vast multi-layered forest arcologyscapes, we could increase the carrying capacity of earth, for humans, to over 300 trillion, living in vast spacious lush garden abundance. Not saying that we should. Just that we could. Such is our headroom.

But we don't get to have nice things, because of the likes of Bezos.

Industrialists, monopolists, "globalists" [oh they love that one, a flowery euphemism for more like "megalomaniacs"?], who eliminate any competition, by whatever means necessary to attain and maintain an imbalance of power.

A few years back I recall some journalists unearthing a study that showed how Wall St (and other stock exchange centers), were not only not "making" money/wealth, but extracting it from the economy, and further, for every dollar of wealth they extracted from the economy, they destroy another 7 dollars of wealth. ... Takes a moment for the magnitude of that to sink in.

So then we get these fauxlanthropists, swanning around, like Rockerfeller, giving a dime to someone on camera, in a community from whom he'd stolen millions, to whitewash their image.

... by whatever means necessary... a lot of that's just by the patents system and the legal system. How many patents get secreted a year? How many merely get sat on? How much lawfare's done to scare off inventors of technologies that would out-compete and obsolete enshitified rent-extraction maximisation technologies? How much else? A spat of inventors disappeared or died in suspicious circumstances recently. How far would you go to protect a multi trillion industry? As far as to actively prevent a better world without resource wars or poverty from ever happening? How far would a psychopath who's drawn to power go, with exacerbating tragedies of the commons for their own selfish short-sighted power-grab and resource gain? There's nothing stopping them...

We can all be polymaths in the making,

not slaves in training, lapping up the platitudes that placate us, from those who enslave us.

(PS, I've been boycotting Amazon since 2004, waiting for everybody else to see it. Maybe now with their participation in vast rampant destruction of rare books to feed their AI for cheap, to become the info monopoly, able to shape our agnosis, more people will see it and stop falling for it, in this small window we have, before their total information management becomes complete and we become a cosmic dystopian tragedy, with our minds entirely curated by the everpresent cold-reading psychopathic ai hypnotist, not just coercively hoodwinking us to carrying it in our pocket, but skynet, will be everywhere, especially in our mind. Except it wont be our mind any more. It will be the corporation's. Maximum capitalisation, reducing people to the numbers. ... Bezos, a trillion humans? Sure. But we are not the same.)

Assuming some aliens appeared out a thin air and gifted us fusion powered spacecraft and space elevator technology it would still take centuries to get to trillions of humans. These people really do talk utter shit.

If you had 1000 kids with proper education, a good safe environment environment, who are allowed and motivated to follow their dreams, and with the economics to support all that you'll probably could also get 1000 Mozarts.

Also you could just name 1000 kids Amadeus, idk.

I don't think that's how it works.

There are one trillion ants on the world and they have zero Mozarts.

I strongly disagree. We need to focus more on quality of life than population. If humanity grows to a trillion people 999.9 billion of us will be living in coffin-sized apartments and eating that runny white goop that fed people in the Matrix.

I would rather have 1 billion humans and everyone lives the American Dream for real.

Human beings can only live abput two years at most in micro gravity. On return after said two years they are effectively paralyzed and have to endure months of physiotherapy just to be able to walk again.

We will never "live" in space or the "solar system", the only place we can live is this planet and anybody telling you otherwise is lying to you.

They do want you in micro gravity though. Besos has on his blue origin website that they plan on having heavy industry in orbit and basically the prols will work in orbit so the planet can remain clean for the rich.