[FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

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That's a fantastic article. I worry about the extension into racism in the later parts. It distracted me from the main story line because of the link to the Naked Dollar and the toxic anti-Wokeism comments there.

But the main story shines light on pathological rationality, the neurotic optimization trap. It reminds me of Effective Altruism, where rationalists wring the skin off their hands trying to choose which charity provides the best bang for their buck ... or twisting one's mind trying to eke out a few miliseconds from a computation with clever but unreadable code.


On 3/17/21 10:31 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/> is about the relationship between parents and elite independent schools and elite colleges, by an author who had both taught and enrolled children in an elite independent school.  It gets extremely weird.

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