"The right is winning all the elections, how is wokeness eating the world?" Take an extreme conservative, say, Ben Shapiro. Consider the Shapiro of 50 years ago, or 100 years ago. What you notice is that the most recent Shapiro figure is always to the left of the previous one.
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We're not only becoming more egalitarian, we're doing so at increasing rates (perhaps there will be some egalitarian singularity, lol) Consider that the current US president is pro same-sex marriage, where Obama was anti- 10 yrs ago. This shows the speed of egalitarianism's rise
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Erik Torenberg Retweeted Erik Torenberg
Interesting to consider in contrast to "Software eats the world." The two competing forces are meritocracy (software) & egalitarianism (wokeness) I’ll use “Markets eat the world” b/c markets are more inherently meritocratic than the more neutral softwarehttps://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1121580822480375808?s=20 …
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Erik TorenbergVerified account @eriktorenberg1/ Some thoughts on “Markets are eating the world”: Marc Andreessen argued that “software is eating the world” back in 2011. Why? Lower start-up costs + a growing market for online services + deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capitalShow this thread1 reply 2 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
Wokeness & software arent mutually exclusive--it's just abt priority Egalitarianism promotes meritocracy to the extent it supports egalitarianism(distributive justice) Meritocracy promotes egalitarianism to the extent it supports meritocracy(equality of opp, procedural justice)
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Wokeness eats the world brought civil rights, virtually all social progress, just like markets eat the world has created the prosperity that makes egalitarianism possible. On net, amazing.
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Erik Torenberg Retweeted Erik Torenberg
Wokeness, to the extreme, becomes communism Markets, to the extreme, doesn’t value human life separate from making $ When markets infiltrates egalitarianism you lose equality When wokeness infiltrates markets you get inefficiency & authoritarianismhttps://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1159850296815673345?s=20 …
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Erik TorenbergVerified account @eriktorenbergWhen markets eat the world, it’s the closest thing to a meritocracy. For the most part, Whoever performs, wins. When Tribalism eats the world, it’s about who you know, who you can charm (read: bribe), and who owes you favors. H/t@Meaningness https://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-care …Show this thread3 replies 3 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
If you knew wokeness was eating the world in, say, 2009, what would you have predicted? e.g - same-sex marriage - more democracies - # metoo - diversity & inclusion - universal healthcare - increased power of the state - attempt to equalize opp across the board - fertility
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Just "markets eating the world" predicts - cryptocurrency - charter cities - ISAs - prediction markets, etc Conclusion: Society is becoming more egalitarian (AND more meritocratic), & has been for a while At the same time software is eating the world, wokeness is eating it too
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I'm interested in feedback on this thesis, both on historical and on investment grounds. If this thesis is true, what else does it enable or predict?
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
I don't think this is true. It's something more like an entanglement of woke-and-anti-woke is eating the world... I was just doing a thread about that cf the "supremacy" dustuphttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1208450898050969602 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrSo tldr on "supremacy" thing: yarvin backchannel-baited aaronson into overreacting to some aspirational overreach by a band of the awokened ones, thereby turning it into actual overreach. These people all deserve each other
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This piece that came out yesterday is a useful framing of what's actually happening via the entanglementhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/false-romance-russia/603433/ …
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tldr: hedgehogs are eating the world, it doesn't matter whether they are woke hedgehogs or antiwoke hedgehogs
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