[FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

[Roger Critchlow]

Yeah, there's this crazy IMBY/NIMBY focus where a person's foremost concern
becomes the justification for ignoring every other thing in the world,
chasing the kids off your lawn with a flamethrower.

There should be a coda which details the difficulties of growing up inside
this, when everything learned in kindergarten is definitely not what the
parents are doing.

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:32 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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