Power is not having to deal with the negative externalities of your own choices. It's okay to seek power, but it shouldn't be confused with virtue. You may act in ways that never require you to ask for help, but you might still act in ways that force others to. Moral hazard.
Taleb's green lumber fallacy interpreted differently. I think it's actively bad that someone can get rich trading green lumber without knowing what it is, because they can create unsolvable problems for people who do know and care what it is.
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A lot of education valorized by the less principled members of the school of thought you're steel-manning is in fact exactly this kind. Teaches you how to win with "green lumber", and how to convince yourself you deserved it. Let others deal with the externalities of your hack.
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Amen. And it's a problem to solve. In a lot of ways, this is idealistic communism vs capitalism debate. Communists focus on this problem, capitalists on its inverse. To be fair, my experience with science, eng, phil, and env doesn't valorize those. Econ, biz do. Two cultures.
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