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    1. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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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    2. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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 softwarehttps://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1121580822480375808?s=20 …

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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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    3. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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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    4. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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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    5. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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 & authoritarianismhttps://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1159850296815673345?s=20 …

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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 https://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-care …
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    6. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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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    7. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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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    8. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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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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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Dec 2019
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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" dustuphttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1208450898050969602 …

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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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    10. Erik Torenberg‏Verified account @eriktorenberg 21 Dec 2019
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      interesting. what is my thread wrong about or missing? is wokeness eating the world and meritocracy eating the world the same thing as "woke-and-anti-woke eating the world"? ...perhaps one point missing is that there is no center?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Dec 2019
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      the point is that neither woke nor antiwoke is actually capable of eating the world, unlike software or markets (I think @TaylorPearsonMe is right long-term about his markets thesis), so the analogy falls apart on feasibility.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Dec 2019
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          In practice what happens is that an institution that's entirely taken over by wokies tends to fail functionally before it can do serious damage these days (so that's different from communism in the 20s) while an institution that's pwned by the alt-right/alt-light/NRx is stillborn

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          Though both can do serious damage in the process of failing fast in today's environment, that's not the same thing as "eating" where a functional substitution process accompanies the destruction

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