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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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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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Activist is just another word for unemployed
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no, activists are working hard (I wish they weren't)
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