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

From the New World

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Building Alternative Institutions Is Not Effective Altruism, Right?

i think there are certain attractors, certain power centers. And we can go over specific ones of each of them. These are almost the, or these are almost, maybe 60, 70 % of what i see as our society getting wrong that are specifically based on these power attractors. This kind of a, this kind of status seeking that happens in those areas is both the reason why they are so poor at doing what many people believe to be their jobs.

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