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Modern meritocracy succeeded for Harvard by making admission scarce, growing its endowment, producing billionaires, and placing Harvard/Ivy graduates throughout the American elite.
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Billionaires
Modern meritocracy succeeded for Harvard by making admission scarce, growing its endowment, producing billionaires, and placing Harvard/Ivy graduates throughout the American elite.
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He says billionaires make no sense because money is meant to circulate as a mechanism of exchange and transaction rather than sit accumulated by a few people.
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"...The success of the Harvard alumni is just incredible. The most billionaires in America, Harvard graduates more billionaires than any other place. Okay? 127..."
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"Okay? And you have MIT, Stanford, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton. Guess what, guys? Ivy League plus MIT. Okay? Okay. $30 million. Still, Harvard..."
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"...of philosophers and professors. But they're everywhere. Even Pulitzer Prize winners, billionaires, New York Times bestselling authors, Fortune 500 CEOs, federal judges, senators. Okay?..."
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"...inequality has increased. Fewer and fewer people have money, okay? Guys, billionaires make no sense. Do you understand? Why should a few people have..."
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"...in the bank, what's the point of that? Okay? So, having billionaires is a bad thing. And if you go to America, you'll find..."
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"...don't want to share. They want to live the life of billionaires, and they want us to own nothing and be happy about it...."
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"the, the people in control, really the handful of billionaires that run the world really did want a depopulation agenda?"
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"Look at these billionaires, right? Like Elon Musk. How many wives does he have? How many children does he have? Right? All the women..."
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"...Gates Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos Elon Musk How did they become billionaires? Guys Guys, I don't think they're smarter than us. In fact, I..."
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"...have great sex. You'll live forever, okay? If you are a billionaire. Everyone else, uh -oh, uh -oh. Well, first of all, you become..."
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"...land of opportunity. If you work hard, you can become a billionaire. No, guys, that's not true, okay? If you balance your social society,..."
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"...So let's just say, let's do a thought experiment. You're a billionaire, okay? You have like $100 million, $10 million, sorry, like $10 billion..."
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