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<blockquote>Embedded Growth Obligations are the way in which institutions plan their future predicated on legacies of growth. And since the period between the end of World War II in 1945 and the early 70s had such an unusually beautiful growth regime, many of our institutions became predicated upon low-variance technology-led, stable, broadly distributed growth. Now, this is a world we have not seen in an organic way since the early 1970s, and yet, because it was embedded in our institutions, what we have is a world in which the expectation is still present in the form of an embedded growth obligation. That is, the pension plans, the corporate ladders, are all still built very much around a world that has long since vanished. | <blockquote>Embedded Growth Obligations are the way in which institutions plan their future predicated on legacies of growth. And since the period between the end of World War II in 1945 and the early 70s had such an unusually beautiful growth regime, many of our institutions became predicated upon low-variance technology-led, stable, broadly distributed growth. Now, this is a world we have not seen in an organic way since the early 1970s, and yet, because it was embedded in our institutions, what we have is a world in which the expectation is still present in the form of an embedded growth obligation. That is, the pension plans, the corporate ladders, are all still built very much around a world that has long since vanished. | ||
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We have effectively become a Growth Cargo Cult. That is, once upon a time, planes used to land in the Pacific, let's say, during World War II, and Indigenous people looked at the air strips and the behavior of the air traffic controllers, and they've been mimicking those behaviors in the years since as ritual, but the planes no longer land. Well, in large measure, our institutions are built for a world in which growth doesn't happen in the same way anymore. | We have effectively become a Growth Cargo Cult. That is, once upon a time, planes used to land in the Pacific, let's say, during World War II, and Indigenous people looked at the air strips and the behavior of the air traffic controllers, and they've been mimicking those behaviors in the years since as ritual, but the planes no longer land. Well, in large measure, our institutions are built for a world in which growth doesn't happen in the same way anymore. | ||
'''-[[18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal/Chapter 2020#Embedded_Growth_Obligations_(EGOs)_2|Eric Weinstein]]''' | |||
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== Child Theories == | |||
Eric's central thesis is that the Embedded Growth Obligation is generative (a parent) of major problem areas in modern society, and that these are a specific form and instantiation of institutional derangement due to Embedded Growth Obligations. | |||
* H1B Visas as a mechanism to suppress STEM wages | |||
* Mask and PPE shortages in the Coronavirus pandemic as a result of institutional failures | |||
* String Theory as a dead end in physics | |||
* The reproducibility crisis in the social sciences | |||
* Campaign finance corruption and unfairness | |||
== Links == | |||
Eventually, this page should be a fuller explanation of EGO, but for the time being here are a few links to things we were able to find doing a Google Search. | Eventually, this page should be a fuller explanation of EGO, but for the time being here are a few links to things we were able to find doing a Google Search. | ||
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* [https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/eric-weinstein-intellectual-dark-web Eric Weinstein Intellectual Dark Web] | * [https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/eric-weinstein-intellectual-dark-web Eric Weinstein Intellectual Dark Web] | ||
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1245024751426236416 Child Theories] | * [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1245024751426236416 Child Theories] | ||