Preemies, Genes, Meritocracy, and the Left
As the researchers sum it up, “Our results highlight the risks of the paradigm that we call ‘naive meritocracy’ . . . because it underestimates the role of randomness among the determinants of success.” Some billionaires may be talented. All have been lucky. And luck is, by definition, the product of chance. Taleb, Duncan Watts, and Robert Frank ha
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Economic thought -- and traditional sort of center-right thought in general -- generally is grounded in an ethos of, "The world is deeply imperfect. Some people are going to get shitty deals."
And a lot of people just really deeply want to reject that. They want a world in which either nobody gets shitty deals, or only people that ... See more
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Economic thought -- and traditional sort of center-right thought in general -- generally is grounded in an ethos of, "The world is deeply imperfect. Some people are going to get shitty deals."
And a lot of people just really deeply want to reject that. They want a world in which either nobody gets shitty deals, or only people that ... See more
YIMBYism as industrial policy
I also worry that members of this same class of liberal parents will convince themselves, in a few years’ time, that doing just a little bit of embryonic gene editing to enhance their future child’s IQ or athletic prowess or height is not just their prerogative, but their duty. The world is spiraling out of control, they will tell themselves.