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No, that's a dirtgull. A landgull would be a kangaroo.

Maybe it's not.

It doesn't say being poor makes you smarter, just that it strongly incentivises you to smarten up, or else your life will be much harder

Stating that the paragraph exists doesn't really convince me... are there any specific sentences you can point at, and explain why they imply that rich = stupid and poor = smart? Seems to me they're just saying that they have the privilege to choose to be stupid, not that being rich means they are stupid.

What you described is the division of labour, which has nothing to do with what OP is talking about. Of course woodcutters, generally speaking, don't need to know quantum mechanics; of course engineers aren't generally well versed in military history, etc. But "people generally only know their chosen subjects in detail" isn't groundbreaking, nor is it what OP said.

No correlation was mentioned

Then be more clear.

That's not a privilege, that's a punishment, whether they recognise it or not

What do you mean by that?

Depends what you mean by "us"

So, this is where it all went wrong. For some reason, you thought that "ignorant and insensitive" were being directed at your reply to my comment, and not to the comment I was originally responding to. Perhaps you forgot that my original comment was a reply to someone else? Either that or you've been trolling the whole time.

Also, this marks the moment where you change the subject away from whether that comment was insensitive (probably because you forgot about that comment, or wanted to pretend you had), and towards discussing whether OP made any demands, which was never an issue on my mind. Damn fine trolling work, I must say, keeping me distracted for so long.

Thanks I guess?