Seems like a better return on investment there would be to make sure everybody has access to nutrition, education, opportunity, and so on.
The point is that the world would benefit from even one more von Neumann.
Which would also indicate the likelihood of a lot of other people achieving more than they would have under more adverse conditions.
The point is that we could have dozens of von Neumann's twin brothers helping us to speed up that process, but we choose not to for no good reason.
Even one additional Von Neumann would be great. More would be fantastic.
And would be associated with a lot of other more impactful people.
The “good” reason for not providing better conditions is we don’t have a system for that.
My vote would be that the value of all raw natural resources not created by human beings efforts be considered a joint inheritance.
The raw value of them being shared by all equally with a focus on health and education for children, and keeping adults above survival mode. We would all benefit from that investment, even the rich.
The efforts of those who extract and process them, as with any human added value, would be rewarded by the competitive marketplace as usual.
Of course, better genes means nutrition, education and opportunity go further