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19 May 2024
The Chinese Communist Revolution consolidated its power by taking land from the elite. In the following generation, the previous elite once again reclaimed their social advantage.
This is not an isolated phenomenon: A Thread on the persistence of status 🧵
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May 25
An overlooked but straightforward consequence of elite college diversity without increases in class size is that the number of White men attending has more than halved.
In other words, elite schools are more 'elite' than ever.
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Apr 7
A reminder that El Salvador had among the highest incarceration rates AND the highest murder rates in the world.
To solve crime, they had to lock up even more people.
Apr 7
By locking up <2% of the population, El Salvador took itself from being the murder capital of the world to being safer than Canada.
With sufficient effort, anywhere can become peaceful and crime-free.
And it's on track to get even more peaceful this year!
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Apr 6
Neat! Rich people are both more risk-tolerant and less neurotic.
It makes sense that stable people can take many high-variance bets that eventually pay off.
Apr 6
The authors of this work now have a newer study with a nine-times larger sample!🧵
The overall result is that the rich are:
- More risk-tolerant, open to experiences, extraverted, and conscientious
- Less neurotic
- No more agreeable than normal, non-rich people
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Top 30 first names in Danish citizenship grants:
There are well over ten times as many Mohammads as Michaels
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The model's best prediction is that over 40% of grantees are MENAP.
open.substack.com/pub/kirkeg…
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South Africa has the highest recorded unemployment rate in the world.
The NYT followed one family for a year as they tried to find work.
A thread on finding employment in third-world conditions🧵
Apr 4
South Africa is a sober reminder that economic growth is not a given.
Over 25 years, the income of South Africans in the bottom 50% has fallen substantially, only offset by transfers/benefits.
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Apr 6
Overall, take this as a broader look at labor and education. Labor is necessary for an economy to grow and for skills to develop. When an economy can't put people to work, it doesn't grow.
Education didn't help her or her family gain useful skills; they remain in poverty.
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Sources:
*(For the unemployment rate Sudan is actually the highest but I'm not including it for obvious reasons)
imf.org/external/datamapper/…
nytimes.com/2023/11/11/world…
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Apr 5
Unsurprisingly, smarter people tend to have better neurons. They are faster, longer, and more dendritically complex.
Intelligence is physical!
ALT https://elifesciences.org/articles/44560
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Apr 4
Shoutout to the people with a 75-vocab IQ who are going through 50 books a year.
I wonder what their reading list is like.
Emil Kirkegaard and I have a new paper. We found many things, one of which is: people who read lots of books a year scored barely higher on vocab tests than those who read a few. Correlation: .21. Obviously this correlation may not even be causal.
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South Africa is a sober reminder that economic growth is not a given.
Over 25 years, the income of South Africans in the bottom 50% has fallen substantially, only offset by transfers/benefits.
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This negative growth applies to about 85% of the population, again mostly offset by transfers.
wid.world/document/can-redis…
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