(I've not read the book, but trust Noah's summary.) What he seems to be addressing is what Freedman less diplomatically called 'the war on the stupid': a society wholly engineered to the benefit of the cognitively gifted (but often morally challenged).https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-war-on-stupid-people/485618/ …
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As Freedman recalls, 'meritocracy' was first coined as a satirical slur. The thought that raw intelligence alone qualified someone to run society was considerable risible if not dystopic. Not that 'merit' was bad, but that interpreting that to mean intelligence alone was absurd.pic.twitter.com/i53gFxSBKu
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Virtues such as loyalty, honesty, self-sacrifice, etc. get rather short shrift these days. Capitalism has consumed every social organizing principle other than the market, and in that market-centered world, mental agility and glib salesmanship reign and virtue disappears.
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Aside from the rejection of virtue in favor of whatever maximizes productivity, there's weakened belief in the intrinsic dignity of all humans. There's secular liberalism's 'human rights' (a warmed-over Christian idea), but it's weak sauce compared to the market's depredations.
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Yeah, but have you read his utter nonsense of a tech policy platform?
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Which part specifically? His website looks like the homepage of a particularly opinionated blogger.
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I spoke with Andrew yang a while back, before his current momentum. You might find it interesting.https://player.fm/series/exponential-view-with-azeem-azhar/ubi-automation-society-in-the-us-andrew-yang-azeem-azhar-in-conversation …
Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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Lmaoo.. The future president will have to deal with Prime Editing, quantum computing, and a drastic reshaping of an economy without previous analogous frameworks. Now tell me which of these "experienced" candidates has slight knowledge especially with tech. This measure is dumb.
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Unfiltered? He comes across as wildly planned out and calculated to me
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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