[Classic] The Lottery of Fascinations
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Is There a Comparative Advantage? Part 4
This whole comparative advantage thing took me kind of by surprise. Some people have trouble believing in G, the idea that all intelligence is correlated. I would see people around me being able to solve complicated math problems effortlessly and think, they are smarter than me. They were talented at hard things and I was only talented at easy things. And if they don't have the skill points, telling someone to just try a little harder at maths is like telling Tyrion Lannister to just trying alittle harder at basketball. Not only is he never going to beat LeBron James, he's going to get upset and frustrated trying and it's not his comparative advantage anyway. It took him about ten years to figure
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