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That doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity to divide up tasks, build assembly lines, and lower the job difficulty so it is accessible to more people.
> "People who would have become professors 50 years ago have other options now. Now they can become quants or start startups."
> "If existing institutions are compromised, they'll create new ones."
However, after reading through the essay a second time, I'm more pessimistic about the positive conclusion of the essay. If startups succeed by "make stuff people want", and given there are "far more conventional-minded people than independent-minded ones", then perhaps independent-minded CEOs making tools for conventional-minded people is not a rare accident, but rather an inevitability.
1) biased as in "the sample does not represent the population" 2) biased as in "the world is far from ideal"
And mixing the two definitions together is confusing: "Even if the data-set is not biased, biases still exist"