A thing I believe with medium confidence: One reason many institutions today are weaker than counterparts were generations ago was that allocation of smart people got more efficient for certain definitions of efficient, and institutions no longer benefit from so much free lunch.
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It is closer to "Brains allocated themselves to the Church so preferentially that non-core projects were so ridiculously oversupplied we would struggle to complete analogous ones in 2019 even with all the technological advantages we had over those brains."
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Ah, right, so much that even janitors were genius-level, so no wonder those stairs and hallways were always pristine as the guys figured out an optimized method to do it. But in 2019 anyone who's that good will be somewhere else so now hallways are dirty. Got it. Thanks.
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