The darkest effects are around things the US expends vast amounts of energy and capital in but barely talks about in anything like an appropriate proportion: healthcare, military adventurism, etc. Why? Because attitudes to wealth/success imply very little of use on these issues
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America has more compassion for Bezos being harassed by Trump than people scammed by Trump University. More compassion for a well-funded startup being blocked from a market by a protectionist crony sector than people being actively hurt by the social costs of that sector.
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Here's (one of the places) where your scheme breaks down, Venkat. IF the SOLE metric were wealth/success, then there would be no such thing as "undeserving" people; success justifies everything, there are only the successful and the not.
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Yeah I don’t think there’s a _pure_ monoculture of W/S in the US. But to make an idea crisp, it’s often useful to make a caricature of it. That’s what I took Venkat to be doing here.
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