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Productivity and Wealth

Started by enguyen · 7 ヶ月 ago

This is an undeveloped thought, in response to an essay by Paul Graham, in which he takes on the idea that enormous variations in wealth are a social evil. First, an excerpt:

Variation in wealth can be a sign of variation in productivity. (In a society of one, they’re id ... Continue reading »

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  • Adjunct to your discussion is the assumption that there is some way of verifying that 'superproducers' do in fact exist, or have impacts that are in some way quantifiably 'productive.' Nassim Taleb believes that the relationship between pay and the ability to measure performance is in fact inverse.

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