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(Classic Episode) Tyler Cowen: The Dark Side of Talent, Sorting and Institutions

From the New World

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The Mandate of Heaven

In Chinese culture, there's this idea of truth always coming to term and of corrupt motives always being weeded out in the end. When you apply this kind of outsider lens to the West, it becomes obvious that there are a lot of basically social tricks that are accepted. In many other cultures, no one would even take this. Like they would just laugh at you. And anyone who tries to engage in this type of rhetoric should be basically barred from any type of power.

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