Abundance without participation, abundance without inclusion, feels like scarcity. It feels like scarcity. You think you're scaling abundance, but we experience it as you scaling scarcity.
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There was just one basic problem with college as America's primary unifying institution, which is that not everyone can go to college. First of all, college is difficult. To complete college courses, you need some degree of raw intelligence, but you also need work ethic and a certain degree of independence.
Noah Smith
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Jacob Bronowski — The Common Sense of Science
The historical examples it cites simply don't support a narrative of out-of-touch technologists inventing the wrong sorts of technologies and hurting workers in the process. The book embraces a highly questionable definition of 'power' in which persuasion in an open democratic society is painted as a threat.
Noah Smith