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> Culture of Achievement

Aren't this already the case, and that the "victimhood" culture are just molten slag in a steel furnace? This does follow the same logic as corruption being an unwanted humanistic side-effect of communist coercion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLZOdvK80ic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-FK_Rmzjc

Perhaps the desire for innovation requires more leg room to stretch and relax, to think and contemplate, rather than to be blindly productive, which leads to formation of perverse incentives (e.g. academic paper mills, "pop art"). If AI would do it, humans would've had this issue forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

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