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Meritocracy: The Genetic Lottery with Kathryn Paige Harden

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Talentocracy

Ily: I've always had this a thing that i thought was just an annoyance on my part, that was one of my idiosyncratic annoyances. But i've begun to think that there might be an underlying, serious note to hem. And what i mean is the way the use of the word talent has expanded in the last couple of decades. We used to think of somebody as talented if they were a musician, they were an artist. Now people say he's talentedt he's talented, rather than she's talented. They use the word talent to describe somebody's ability to have business insights. Does that make sense? Ily: It's been another way to justify the mare

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