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KarlKemp on Sept 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elite Biases Make Policy Biases

> Their highest hopes tend to be of gaining positions in, getting promoted in, or creating, such organizations. When they have dreams for the world, they dream of new versions with higher mandates and bigger budgets. (Think socialism.)

What? CEOs (example from the paragraph before, along with doctors, judges lawyers etc) want socialism?

webmaven on Sept 19, 2021 [–]

> What? CEOs (example from the paragraph before, along with doctors, judges lawyers etc) want socialism?

Quite often, yes. For example, that's how we got universal public education in the US. The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto is a reasonable look at how it happened.

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