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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 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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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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Also, "meritocracy" is not the logical opposite of "woke", though it sometimes marches under that banner. The logical opposite is ethnonationalism, which is why it is very hard for those who take quillette-type positions at face value to avoid that slippery slope
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