alt Hacker NewsWe now live in a courtier world where flattery and politics determine successful outcomes.
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quantummagic • today at 3:48 PM
Yes we do. We always did, and we still do.
We now live in a courtier world where flattery and politics determine successful outcomes.
Yes we do. We always did, and we still do.
That has been the case for a vast swathe of time across history. It hurts because we had a nice couple of decades where it seemed that, not only was this not the case, but that we were directionally accelerating away from it.