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Tyler Cowen: The Dark Side of Talent, Sorting and Institutions

From the New World

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The Mandate of Heaven Is Like This

In chinese culture there's this idea of truth always coming to term, and of corrupt motives always being weeded out in the end. When you apply this kind of outsider lans to the west, it becomes obvious that they're a lot of basically social tricks that are accepted. And i think that thas true lot in politics, with actually, right wingers is as much as left wingers. In many other cultures, no one would even take this,. like, they would just laugh at you if you suggested that as a defence for those people. If people claim good intentions and then they continually fail,  you have to be accustomed to basically sayinglike, this rhetoric is

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