Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows - Revision history

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	\|content=To attract the '''sharpest minds''' to science, drive the returns from '''sharp elbows''' towards zero.		\|content=To attract the '''sharpest minds''' to science, drive the returns from '''sharp elbows''' towards zero.
	\|timestamp=11:49 PM · Dec 14, 2009		\|timestamp=11:49 PM · Dec 14, 2009
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	\|content=The various professions all have their version of this. If you are highly trained and are paid for your time, you probably have a relationship to a pyramid scheme where the demand for training outstrips real demand for the trained. This leads to '''sharp elbows over sharp minds'''. End		\|content=The various professions all have their version of this. If you are highly trained and are paid for your time, you probably have a relationship to a pyramid scheme where the demand for training outstrips real demand for the trained. This leads to '''sharp elbows over sharp minds'''. End
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	\|content=If you are new to my thinking I should say what I mean by a profession being broken. By way of example, take a top post-war expansion era PhD advisor who trained researchers before 1973. Those researchers generally got positions they trained for:		\|content=If you are new to my thinking I should say what I mean by a profession being broken. By way of example, take a top post-war expansion era PhD advisor who trained researchers before 1973. Those researchers generally got positions they trained for:

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	\|content=Post 1973, arguably even more amazing PhD advisors...the creme de la creme...at the very top places...struggle to get their trainees research positions. All for the obvious reason that most careers dried up due to Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOS).		\|content=Post 1973, arguably even more amazing PhD advisors...the creme de la creme...at the very top places...struggle to get their trainees research positions. All for the obvious reason that most careers dried up due to Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOS).

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	\|content=Once the field goes into extractive mode, it names calls those who point out the obvious: increased Darwinian competition left us w/ more ruthless competitors who may be better trained & less generative than the earlier folks who didn’t know they were building a pyramid scheme.		\|content=Once the field goes into extractive mode, it names calls those who point out the obvious: increased Darwinian competition left us w/ more ruthless competitors who may be better trained & less generative than the earlier folks who didn’t know they were building a pyramid scheme.
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Pyrope at 05:54, 7 October 2025

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	\|content=The various professions all have their version of this. If you are highly trained and are paid for your time, you probably have a relationship to a pyramid scheme where the demand for training outstrips real demand for the trained. This leads to sharp elbows over sharp minds. End		\|content=The various professions all have their version of this. If you are highly trained and are paid for your time, you probably have a relationship to a pyramid scheme where the demand for training outstrips real demand for the trained. This leads to '''sharp elbows over sharp minds'''. End
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 * [[Extractive Elite]]
 * [[Knarc]]
 * [[The Looting Party]]

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			* [[Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows]]

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	'''References:'''		'''References:'''
			* [https://youtu.be/C84cpRGGC5U?t=1688 The Jolly Swagman Podcast #100]
	* [https://art19.com/shows/the-portal/episodes/1b4a34fc-8ee2-489a-af6a-0a996b89d27b 2:16:21 in Podcast Episode 41]		* [https://art19.com/shows/the-portal/episodes/1b4a34fc-8ee2-489a-af6a-0a996b89d27b 2:16:21 in Podcast Episode 41]

			== See Also ==
			* [[Extractive Elite]]

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