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[...] The institutionalized meritocratic system helps a few to gain access to positions they merit and from which they might otherwise be barred. But it allows many more to gain access to positions on the basis of ascribed status under the cover of having gained this access by achievement.

[...] there’s a very interesting discourse that I quote in my book in chapter 13 by the founder of Sciences Po, and so that was right after the expanse of the commune, which was very traumatic at least for the elite, a very traumatic experience of redistribution in France. And so he has a very clea…

A universal stipend, without means testing or any other qualifier, would be such a literal, blunt form of redistribution that it might become less vulnerable to the traditional pitfalls of corruption and power mongering. At least that is the thinking I have heard expressed in the valley.

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We're still analyzing Eric's model and the results it is generating, but a few things can already be said. One is that adding a cost to information does not blow up this type of model. Insurance companies do not go out of business. In fact, there appear to be states in "paid-for" information models…

[...] Are you still keeping people in the center? Is it still all about the people? Are you really avoiding the lazy trapdoor of falling back into thinking of people as components and a central server as being the only point of view for defining efficiency or testing efficacy?