The Importance of Being a Generalist

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Ravi Agrawal: I think the culture is more sympathetic than I used to it. He says one of the great advantages of American life is that, you know, Americans rarely understand just how stratospherically wealthy their country actually is. Aisdemonialist: There are people who are smarter than everyone else and the odds are you are not one. If Sweden was a United States by per capita income, what state would be closest to Sweden?

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