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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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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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"Fish swim upstream because the one that makes it all the way up the mountain will become a dragon." - Ancient Chinese saying about people cramming for civil service exams. Supposedly it's been repurposed as a commentary on entrepreneurship culture, though.
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Good insight.
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