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#589 - 14 Lessons from 5 Years Of Modern Wisdom
Modern Wisdom
The Toqville Paradox
By pretty much any quantifiable metric, racism appears to have declined over the last 100 years. But if you were to listen to certain media outlets, they would suggest that racism is as bad as it's ever been or maybe even worse. So you can imagine that concept creep, which is as a problem becomes ever rarer, you need to expand the definition in order to keep the problem the same level. This encourages a victimhood mentality. You can see exactly how this would create that downstream from it. Living standards are rising, expectations rise, expectations continue to rise, because imagination is unbound and sadly, GDP and the amount of space that we have to give you a nice new living
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