Agreed. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 12:21 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > Yes, but so what? If there is a lottery system for top universities (per > the abstract), how is that substantially different from just viewing > individuals a cluster of particles in the expanding universe? It’s one > kind of luck or another. > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Sunday, September 13, 2020 11:15 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats > > > > More luck. Luck isn't the only thing but it's important. Nick Hanauer > says that years ago he had a couple million to invest and he was presented > with a couple of venture capital opportunities. He had no idea which to > choose so he essentially flipped a coin. His choice was Amazon and he's > now a multi-billionaire. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 11:56 AM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> > wrote: > > Taking the view that success is nothing more than an outcome of a random > percolation process, the individuals on the `winning’ end of that > percolation process are significantly different from the people that got > stuck somehow. They have more skills, more knowledge, more contacts, more > experience. Yes there are arguable counter examples: PhDs that do > management and lose their technical edge, or individuals that are too > specialized to do anything very useful. But by in large it is helpful to > be around people that study and solve hard problems for a living and > accumulate expertise. If it is a given that there are only so many slots > available or needed for highly-skilled people in a society, then whether > there is `justice’ for that selection isn’t really related to merit as a > thing (versus as a process). What’s really needed to get more people > through some kind of enriching percolation process is a **demand** for it > – huge numbers of open, positions that will participate in creating diverse > services people want to pay for. Then the various kinds of organizations > that provide appropriate support for learning can adapt to that need. > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of * > thompnicks...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Sunday, September 13, 2020 10:28 AM > *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats > > > > This should do it! > > > > > https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-j-sandel/the-tyranny-of-merit/ > > > > The thesis is that “meritocracy” is the cause of the fact that the us is > now the least socially mobile country among the western democracies. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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