/lit/ - Literature

>>20251705

This isn't true. Many aristocrats had excellent STEM educations in addition to knowledge of the arts, such as the aristocrat whose pictured above, and his family had everything stolen from them by the Commies when he was a teenager.

He was also a gifted polyglot, with fluent knowledge of at least five living languages (French, German, English, Yiddish, and of course his native Hungarian) and two dead ones (Latin and Classical Greek). He also had a deep love of history and literature, and could easily've excelled in those fields professionally had he so choosed.

Granted, John Von Neumann was probably the smartest human being ever, but he was hardly alone. Almost all the great STEM figures in history until recently were also aristocrats.