it's wild how the problem people have with harvard is that the unaccountable committees who determine who rules and who is ruled, who's allowed to succeed in life and who isn't, is trying to do social engineering *in ways they don't like*
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there's no possible way for harvard to *not* be engaged in social engineering! they have large pools of people who can't be ranked according to formalized "qualifications" - they have to decide *somehow*
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and given the incredible importance of a decision in one's favor, their decision metrics will inevitably become known *to people of a certain class* - and not to others
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i read the big short recently, and one of the things that stood out was that financial institutions were able to determine and manipulate the allegedly secret and unmanipulable metrics that rating agencies used to decide bond credit ratings
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...and traders could profit by making incremental improvements in determining these metrics!
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