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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