[FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

[Frank Wimberly]

Hanauer might remember.  I doubt that anyone else knows.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 1:17 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:15 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats
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> More luck.  Luck isn't the only thing but it's important.  Nick Hanauer
> says that years ago he had a couple million to invest and he was presented
> with a couple of venture capital opportunities.  He had no idea which to
> choose so he essentially flipped a coin.  His choice was Amazon and he's
> now a multi-billionaire.
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> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 11:56 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
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> Taking the view that success is nothing more than an outcome of a random
> percolation process, the individuals on the `winning’ end of that
> percolation process are significantly different from the people that got
> stuck somehow.   They have more skills, more knowledge, more contacts, more
> experience.  Yes there are arguable counter examples:  PhDs that do
> management and lose their technical edge, or individuals that are too
> specialized to do anything very useful.    But by in large it is helpful to
> be around people that study and solve hard problems for a living and
> accumulate expertise.   If it is a given that there are only so many slots
> available or needed for highly-skilled people in a society, then whether
> there is `justice’ for that selection isn’t really related to merit as a
> thing (versus as a process).   What’s really needed to get more people
> through some kind of enriching percolation process is a **demand** for it
> – huge numbers of open, positions that will participate in creating diverse
> services people want to pay for.   Then the various kinds of organizations
> that provide appropriate support for learning can adapt to that need.
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 13, 2020 10:28 AM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats
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> This should do it!
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> https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-j-sandel/the-tyranny-of-merit/
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> The thesis is that “meritocracy” is the cause of the fact that the us is
> now the least socially mobile country among the western democracies.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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