Ah, normal people . . . "It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
But also, this is a moment to question what you mean by "normal". The most normal person on earth is probably an Asian woman. She earns less than $10 a day (this is the median, and NOT the average, which is prone to distortion by outliers). In terms of the sweep of human experience, a normal person would probably be a hunter gatherer . . . I'm guessing you mean something else, though. This is a good moment to be explicit about our assumptions.
