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Freddie Deboer: How Intra-Elite Competition Turned Mental Illness Into a Meme

From the New World

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The Elite Overproduction Problem in American Culture

There's a tendency for society to produce more people who have elite standing or elite status, but with insufficient resources of reward. I think that there could be a rehabilitation of a basic social message, which is you are not special, right? And we're all sort of equally valid and spending too much time asserting the importance and value of your own self interest is untoward,.

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