outcomes. And, further, while at first I agreed with the idea that as societies scale they’re greatest outcomes will be more a function of luck than skill, this also doesn’t seem to be born out in practice. Bezos, Gates, and Buffett seem more skilled than lucky.
Is the implication that as societies scale they become unsustainable because humans, with their mimetic tendencies, copy behaviors more often of the lucky than the skillful? It doesn’t seem to be that way in practice. It seems few people copy the people who’ve had the greatest
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They're definitely extremely skilled. The scoreboard of solid companies is filled with skilled people (
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But the masses don't know Bezos and don't copy Bezos.
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Yes, it would be the implication, but as you correctly point out, it's not what happens. Thankfully, we do not only see the guy at the top of the scoreboard, but also our friends, family, etc. This probably smoothens the effect I described by a lot, making it marginal only.
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