But seriously SATs etc have known scope, can be studied for, main trick is to not fuck up under pressure And you're actually incentivized to be Correct reasoning in the field is harder and messier on all axes
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Heh man I think I'm getting angry at the fucking idiot sociopaths who were great at gaming their scores and shit at learning, and beat out actual Students Looking at premed kids especially I did a biochem degree at one point and those shitheels were everywhere
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yeah luv too see Goodhart's Law manifest in people who are supposed to be keeping us from fucking dying
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I am rapidly approaching that point myself, although I think I'd prefer it if we just went straight to the Fight Club scenario, I'd probably die quickly but socialism seems really soul-suckingly depressing in large doses.
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yeah, i don't know how people manage to not even be sympathetic to
#BTFSTTG sentiment even if they shy away from fully embracing it socialist measures are fine as long as they don't require mind control or planned economies, so, y'know, like a microdose of socialism -
Democratic socialism a la the Nordic countries is workable under the right conditions and may even produce a reasonably tolerable society. It is incredibly vulnerable to disruption and isn't workable outside of some fairly tight parameters.
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it requires an external revenue source to be viable or else you just ruin your economy with ever spiraling taxation to maintain the expanding welfare state. the success stories have natural resource economies (Norway) or massive export surpluses (Germany).
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That makes it a lot easier but I think you could do it with the right population for quite some time. There is a lot of ruin in a country.
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Though that reminds me of Dr. Richebacher's observation that people who said communism couldn't accomplish things were wrong. "Communism did the impossible. It produced Germans who did not want to work."
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dayum, clearly communism never recovered from that one
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Communism and capitalism are, outside of formal structures, pretty much inherent conflicting principles in all human societies. 1/2
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