accepting this arguendo we should still do it because ffs this is Americahttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1425445633087901697 …
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eigenrobot Retweeted Melancthon Smith
an important principle of a small-d democratic society is that you dont get treated differently because of who your daddy ishttps://twitter.com/melancthonian/status/1425508854427684864?s=19 …
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this is absolutely never going to be fully realized and heritability and etc etc etc. yes but explicitly and institutionally implementing contraventions of the the principle is abhorrent and frankly European
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Why do people care so much about these ivy league schools and how they admit people? It seems like it's only really beneficial to a few majors. Maybe it's just something I really do not care about since I seemed to have done well without it.
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Because they are the gatekeepers of future elite status.
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I think we are about to see a shift in that. I think the shift started maybe a decade ago, I think it's going to accelerate. It has nothing to do with people fighting against their admissions process. The elite class is shifting towards tech
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Only people in tech think this. I would say the war for influence between east coast elites and west coast tech has already been fought over the last 7 years and tech has lost.
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Still ongoing, I think, although tech was incredibly foolish to let the east coast woke nonsense infect their companies.
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Goldman Sachs recently raised the pay of new analysts to $110k which is a pittance in tech
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influence seems to inevitably follow money
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Tech has already adopted all stances that the politcal elite wanted them to adopt. Under these condition they make keep 'influence'. The political legacy of early silicon valley ideals is basically 0
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and yet journalism is still bankrupt
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