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Prof. Michael Sandel: Why the elites don’t deserve their status

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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Is It Better for an 18-Year-Old to Be a University Professor?

In his new book, David Frum argues that we need to reclaim the question of social value. We have outsourced our moral judgment about what contributions matter to markets, he says. Markets are very, very poor instruments for making moral judgments about what contributions are truly valuable,. He asks: Would you say it would be better for an 18 year old who has potential to become a university professor just because they can?

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