JS Bach had 20 kids, possibly the most fecund genius of all
Darwin had 10 kids, 7 of which survived childhood. FWIW.https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1130574657948737536 …
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Genghis Khan was a military genius...
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Bertrand Russell was married 4 times. Wittgenstein died childless and never married. Schopenhauer had a mistress. Socrates was henpecked.
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"Bertrand Russell was married 4 times" Well, at least he had fun...
"Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted time" - Bertrand Russell
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Except when he was banging the maid and ineptly forcing his family into poverty.
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Also, Adam Smith, "father of capitalism" was a single man living with his mother for his whole life. He took her cooking, cleaning, caring and general life management for granted. His mother is probably the real "Invisible hand." I call it the domestification of women. Like cows.
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I actually totally agree that this is a knock against Smith and against a type of capitalism that doesn’t take non-market transactions/value into account.
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People who are single and childless often have rich interactions with siblings, colleagues and friends who are married with children. Few live as hermits in caves. As a child, I knew how to drive from observing others, long before I owned my own car.
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I’ve always loved this detail about Darwin’s life—it’s poetically apt that he had so many children. But his wife was also his first cousin, and it’s odd that he and his extended family didn’t better heed the dangers of inbreeding.https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18847-darwin-dynastys-ill-health-blamed-on-inbreeding/ …
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