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(Classic Episode) Tyler Cowen: The Dark Side of Talent, Sorting and Institutions

From the New World

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Is Libertarianism a Part of the Coalition That's Not Been Very Effective?

I see a lot of people, maybe they're people where I would agree with them on a whole bunch of things, but they fundamentally devote their energies to attacking what you're calling the status attractors. And I just observe empirically, it often makes them stupid or less effective. If that becomes your focus, in some funny way, you end up co-opted by the system and boring. That's very interesting because I don't know if this is just a grasses greener on the other side, on the otherside, or maybe grasses less green on the other Side.

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