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  P ublished on   March 12, 2019  in Quillette Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy Jesus said that the poor would always be with us. Despite the best efforts of philanthropists and redistributionists over the last two millennia, he has been right so far. Every nation in the world has poor and rich, separated by birth and luck and choice. The inequality between rich and poor, and its causes and remedies, are discussed ad nauseam in public policy debates, campaign platforms, and social media screeds. However, the relentless focus on inequality among politicians is usually quite narrow: they tend to consider inequality only in monetary terms, and to treat “inequality” as basically synonymous with “income inequality.” There are so many other types of inequality that get air time less often or not at all: inequality of talent, height, number of friends, longevity, inner peace, health, charm, gumption, intelligence, and fortitude. And finally, there is a type of inequa...

            Information Processing Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will      Favorite posts  |  Manifold podcast  | Twitter:  @hsu_steve View my complete profile Sunday, March 21, 2021 The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility (McGue et al. 2020) If you have the slightest pretension to serious knowledge concerning social mobility, meritocracy, inequality, genetics, psychology, economics, education, history, or any related subjects, I urge you to carefully study this paper. The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility    (Psychological Science  https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620924677 ) Matt McGue, Emily A. Willoughby, Aldo Rustichini, Wendy Johnson, William G. Iacono, James J. Lee  We investigated intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in a sample of 2,594 adult offspring and 2,530...

    Insights into Cultureplaces provide meaning, significance and purpose which contribute to our happiness. Observations that we accumulate not through “knowing more and more about less and less,” as scholars do, but just by living a cosmopolitan life in the Bay Area. These intellectual perambulations equip us to form opinions that deserve to be explored by others who share an interest in the deeper significance of events. We emphasize dialogue among participants of our salon not passively watching lectures or panel exchanges. As the great polymath Sir David McKay wrote in his book on sustainable energy Without Hot Air,  "Convictions are stronger if they are self-generated, rather than taught" Rafting the Cultural Currents of the New Millennium "To enter the current of this poem is to hurtle downstream through history on a flood of eloquent and passionate language that is in turn philosophic, satiric, tender, angry, ironic, sensuous, and, above all, ele...