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am_Unition · 2773 days ago · link · · parent · post: The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940
The role of culture in dictating the future is something I've relegated to the realm of the unknowable, and I probably frowned, when I decided that. But damn, that is another fine Graeber piece. I think he's right. Confirmation bias, sure, but the bit about how we logically require massive bureaucracy for extremely complex projects is my favorite. When people don't understand why it costs so much to do these little science projects, that's because they don't understand what we do. Every single time. To fully grasp it, someone's going to need to sit down with a dry erase board and go one-on-one for a little while. And that's not happening. I mean... thanks.