Okay, just rewatched the Durov interview once again more carefully. Learnt amazing things about Pavel:
- Born in 1984, during the first 4 years of his life already realized that the centralized soviet economy is dysfunctional
- As a 4yo moved to Italy with his parents, where the benefits of free markets and competition became clear to him
- Solved qubic equations in real-time as a primary school kid
- Returned back to Russia in 1992 and went to a normal school where he was learning 6 (!) foreign languages in parallel and chemistry at the university level
To all of the American plebs here: Yes, as someone who was born around the same time and in the same country as Pavel, I fully confirm that what he’s saying is 100% true. Russian kids are born geniuses with a math textbook in our left hand and a chemistry textbook in our right hand, and up to 10 languages in our head. Moreover, we are able to criticize the planned economy in our early age because it’s in our blood – as for me personally, I realize it’s wrong so early on that I started charging my friends in the kindergarten for playing with me in the sandbox and later for using my toys. This is what we are.
