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In addition, a lot of the “natural talent” might be coming from early childhood practice when children's brains are the most malleable - eg if a kid is drawing since they are 6, it is much more likely they'll be noticed and cultivated. Which makes them more likely to appear talented when they are 11 / 15 etc, when they might be noticed and cultivated in turn etc. Early advantages pile up.

Not to say that some things gene related are not advantageous - you are not likely to become a basketball player if you are short, even if you put in enormous amounts of practice.

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Johnson and Johnson attempts to sacrifice millions of lives by restricting life saving tuberculosis drug

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Don't think private medicine companies are such a bad thing - there can only be so much research that is publicly funded and we can potentially miss out on some life saving drug not getting developed.

Imo a better solution would be decreasing the patent age so that the companies have only a small window to generate profit, after which the drugs would go into public domain. 20 years is way too long to profit of a discovery

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