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another small synthesis thread.
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* @St_Rev calling modern universities "madrasas"
* the economics concept of lottery professions, e.g. music, where 1 in a thousand makes big money https://www.litcharts.com/lit/freakonomics/chapter-3-why-do-drug-dealers-still-live-with-their-moms …
* David Friedman's "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours"
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5/ So...aha! Here's my synthesis: The ancient Chinese civil service exam system was not only a way for select a civil service, it was a way to (a) create a "reserve army" of other candidates - this is exactly like prize / lottery economics, where every 1 Bruce Springsteen >
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6/ creates 20,000 garage bands that provide cheap / free music at local bars, (b) a system to indoctrinate all of the other people. Spend five years reading Confucian philosophy, and how can the mind virus not crawl in? Those funny Chinese ; we don't have a system like that!
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7/ ...except ... recall
@St_Rev calling modern western universities madrasas. How many people study "English" (i.e. left wing politics) hoping to become a professor with an "iron rice bowl" ? How many actually get the job / get tenure? How many study environmentalism?Show this thread -
8/ Race grievance studies? Feminism? For ever one B̶r̶u̶c̶e̶ ̶S̶p̶r̶i̶n̶g̶s̶t̶e̶e̶n̶ Cornell West who wins the lottery, we get 20,000 students who fail to win the lottery, but are incentivized to self-radicalize in the madrasa.
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9/ Think about how many people call themselves "activists" and who are running around trying to push codes of conducts, trying to infiltrate publishers, trying to - in short - destroy western civilization. Every one of them is working for free, hoping to graduate to paid level.
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11/ All you have to do to get tenure, Winston, is strap the rat face cage on 400 other people. Wait - did I say "get tenure" ? I meant - have a CHANCE of getting tenure. /exeunt
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12/ Picked up Friedman's book after work, read one page further...and, of course, he had already identified exactly the point I made above. Sigh.
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