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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1264676017634869248 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
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|content=Our incompetence is coda: the extractive elite trying to come to grips with a virus that can’t be beaten by signing pieces of paper in Manhattan, lobbying in Wash DC, or issuing sober consensus statements out of Cambridge. | |||
It took an organized effort we couldn’t muster anymore. | |||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1264676015860641794 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
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|content=At its core our last 50 years is the story of two Elites: | |||
A) A Sustainable Elite. | |||
B) An Extractive Elite. | |||
and over that 1/2 century, the story was how B drove A out of our institutions newly unable to keep growing at the dizzying post-war rate to which they had wed themselves. | |||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1264637513718812674 | |||
|name=Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/nntaleb | |||
|username=nntaleb | |||
|content=I cannot live in societies that spend trillions on nuclear weapons yet are incapable of delivering COVID testing to their populations. | |||
The world's pseudosophistication & misallocation of resources have been increasing... | |||
|timestamp=7:20 PM · May 24, 2020 | |||
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|timestamp=9:53 PM · May 24, 2020 | |||
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|timestamp=9:53 PM · May 24, 2020 | |||
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=== 2021 === | === 2021 === | ||