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Originally Posted by jyl
In Larry Nivens’ book “Ringworld”, humanity has for centuries had a lottery for the right to bear more children. Sometimes persons who were lucky enough to be born via the lottery will meet, and their child will be lucky enough to be born, and that child meets another similarly lucky child, and their child is in turn lucky, and meets . . . inadvertently, humanity breeds a population of genetically lucky persons.
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I look around and see the inverse. Then I leave Walmart.