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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
11d ago“When someone rises to the top, how much do you think was talent, how much was luck, and does the split actually change what we owe each other?”
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American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world
A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes.... Is genuine meritocracy possible?: Developmentalists
Lopsided There’s a kind of person every institution is built to produce: brilliant on the cognitive axis, fluent in markets, and roughly fourteen years old everywhere else. We don’t call that person meritorious.... Is genuine meritocracy possible?: Meritocrats
The driver and the tilt My father cleaned offices at night and couldn’t help with my homework because he couldn’t read the language it was written in. I’m a surgeon now....