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Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO): The necessity for the total amount of available social goods to grow in order for there to be intergenerational equity.  See: https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Embedded_Growth_Obligations

* ''On The Peter Principle'':  "The Peter principle has to do with systems of selective pressures, so that in a previous world where corporate ladders actually functioned (which many of our younger viewers won’t know anything about because the corporate latter hasn’t worked for a great deal of time) people would advance by merit to the point at which they would find that they were first incompetent and then they would stop there, and effectively you would go one step beyond where your competency lay. I think that the Peter principle really doesn’t function because what you now have is an insane situation in which you have people like myself: about 55 years old (54, technically) who have never even started our careers because of the holding pattern that we find having to do with tremendous numbers of people in the silent and boomer generations holding the important chairs" <small>''(source: [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw?t=105  The Verdict With Ted Cruz Ep. 39, 1:45])"</small>

* ''On Meritocracy'':  "So in terms of progressivism, one of the things that’s very important to understand is that in many ways the market is not actually functioning to promote talent. There’s a great deal of skepticism about whether meritocracy can continue to be a part of the American story. And then what we’re finding is that in the absence of a functioning meritocracy we see Maoism as being incredibly important and being embraced by one of our two major parties, and I see Maoism is very distinct from progressivism." <small>''(source: [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw?t=160  The Verdict With Ted Cruz Ep. 39, 2:40])"</small>

* ''On Credentialism'':  "Credentialism has given us a culture of silos. Therefore, because everyone is afraid of violating the Dunning-Kruger principle, effectively we don’t have people roaming around the cabin or with “all-access” passes." <small>''(source: [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw?t=58  The Verdict With Ted Cruz Ep. 39, 1:00])"</small>

* ''On the NYTimes'': "They’re not hard-left; they’re nuts. ... Stupid and crazy shouldn’t be part of a political--spectrum that should be a mental condition." <small>''(source: [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw?t=1420 The Verdict With Ted Cruz Ep. 39, 24:00])''</small>

* "The unthinkable is misnamed." <small>''(source: [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242149392070479873 Twitter])''</small>

* "We are now gods, but for the wisdom." <small>''(source: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_EWCN3CPhTI&t=9961 Joe Rogan Experience #1320, 2:46:34])''</small>

 

 

 

 

 

 

* "The fear that happens when you start swimming away from the shore that you’re not going to find a next island before your strength gives out. I think it’s very rational to be afraid of thinking for yourself because you may very easily find yourself at odds with the community on which you depend. And I think for some of us, it’s just a compulsive behavior. It’s not even necessarily the smartest evolutionary strategy. It’s just hard to do it any other way." <small>''(source: The Tim Ferriss Show Episode 131)''</small>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

== Other Collections ==

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