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I don't think you can lay naming at the feet of capital. Euclid, Ramanujan, Galois, Poncelet.. The list goes on. The Marxist lens is feeble.

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If you’re not hunting to survive (and even then), you have access to capital. The time to study math is, and always has been, paid for by someone, some way.

We shouldn't forget the sun either. Without the sun none of us would be here.

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