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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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 software
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1/ 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 capital
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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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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 & authoritarianism
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When 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 meaningness.com/metablog/post-
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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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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" dustup
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So 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
If you don't know what this is about, be glad.
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This piece that came out yesterday is a useful framing of what's actually happening via the entanglement theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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tldr: hedgehogs are eating the world, it doesn't matter whether they are woke hedgehogs or antiwoke hedgehogs

