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525: Robert H. Frank | The Myth of Meritocracy

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The Negative Effects of Overestimating Our Role in the Good Things That Happen to Us

There's a tendency to feel that if you make something with your own hands, that it's yours. John Locke wrote about this hundreds of years ago. Every person has a natural right to the property of his own efforts. In fact, we all live in societies, all societies, at the very least all successful ones have governments. They do things that we can't do any other way, really, besides through collective action.

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