#Meritocracy

A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas shared by @naval during 2011-13:1/To everyone saying that college is about connections and soft stuff - sure, but there are ways to do that
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I haven't read the book itself, but I took a brief look at Andrew Sullivan's review of The Cult of Smart, by Fredrik DeBoer (also touched on by Paige Harden
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RE: last thread - I think a lot of us need to learn how to deal with jealousy much more effectively. Social media exacerbates envy x100 - and then can
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"Fifty-nine percent of those polled said they believed China will become more powerful than the U.S. within 10 years" - https://www.politico.eu/article/1-in-3-europeans-say-us-cant-be-trusted-poll-donald-trump-joe-biden/ ... I hat
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I see Ruth Shalit has been up to her old shit. Good for The Atlantic to offer a mea culpa as part of their corrections, but I also want to
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1) Minimum wage will never rise high enough & fast enough to account for all the ways that the lion's share of the economic pie that all humans create is
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As an agent who is closed to queries and desperately trying to get through her slush pile (s/o to QueryManager for the incredible self-own that is the stats homepage) I've
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The Corruption Cooperative Along with Badi (UNSC war criminal)+Ghariani (banned from UK), Bashaga was one of the architects of Operation Dawn that invaded Tripoli in '14 following loss of elex
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Seattle is quickly moving forward with its plan to "abolish prisons." I've received a trove of leaked documents from within the King County Executive's Office claiming that the justice system
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HOW LONG HAVE YOU *GOT*, PALS? I mean, a) do we believe Sally Rooney is "a writer whose style is as hard to catch and name as a new species
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Ok, so we've had a bit of fun pointing out both true "conspiracy theories" and how the establishment order takes advantage of the RWNJ conspiracy community to hide the exploitations,
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A lot of people are confused about China's economic model. Is it socialist/communist or capitalist? The answer is that it is a hybrid that doesn't comport easily with the simplistic
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Notice how they didn't say in the Oregon ethnomathematics toolkit that "the concept of mathematics being objectively true is *objectively* false." Lol at "unequivocally." Let's see what else is in
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Through JdP's eyes| Setien's tenure under the loop[THREAD]#JdPAnalysis Seven months after his appointment on January, Quique Setien has been officially sacked on the August 17th, 2020. A chaotic tenure hard
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Canada is a country rooted in settler colonialism, specifically the physical occupation of land to control resources. Here's a map and information leaflet from 1893 promoting settlement while ignoring what
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Why isn’t anti-racism the way forward? Because it’s not a simple matter what what the two words mean. Anti-racism as it’s presently understood is all about dismantling the entire Western
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