There’s an interesting corollary to the whole “people from brand-name schools optimise for prestige by default” — if you’re a startup, you can’t afford to hire people who took prestigious jobs (and in fact it may be a negative signal).
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Serious question: if you replaced 'mimetic trap' with 'peer pressure', would there be any loss of information?
(My writer's brain is doing the substitution to test if this is an instance of 'name checks Girardian theory to make simple idea sound more insightful'.)
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I *think* there is something novel here — beyond 'peer pressure' alone. But I've had to reread the article thrice to be sure. 😅
haha fair point, definitely a lot of overlap.
I'd characterise 'peer pressure' as more of an explicit thing — you can kinda tell when peer pressure is your motivator. whereas you can fall into + get stuck in 'mimetic traps' for a long time without actually realising it. wdyt?
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