Irony is that @nelliebowles’ Gilded Age family is partially responsible for establishing California’s extraordinarily complex water rights system, which offers the cheapest prices to the longest-standing landholders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_v._Haggin …https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/946933649869504513 …
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Like would the above invalidate the research or ideas that Stanford produces today? No. But it’s interesting context — for me, that would point to the notion that the region’s cultural idea of meritocracy has unsavory historical roots.
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Fair enough. It's interesting, but not something that needed to be disclosed. Just seemed like the implication was Bowles is shill for "big clean water" or something, but tone/implications/assumptions on Twitter are hard. I'll check those docs out later. Have a good evening!
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