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An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Decline of Productivity

We haven't had strong productivity growth since the 1970s. Because the overall pie isn't growing we're now just fighting over the scraps. It's much more profitable at the moment to believe in kayfabe and fakery like everything is professional wrestling. I've been writing about this for a long time. To me when I was writing the kayfabe essay was probably in 2013 it probably sounded a little bit weird to people that I was saying that we should be studying professional wrestling because it was going to take over the world.

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