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Published · transcript-backedByron Auguste: belief
21 Sept 2022 Conversations with Tyler Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market
“I think the argument that institutions are self-interested is not as much of an insult as some people give it credit.”
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- 21 Sept 2022
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…Now, you argued before — and I fully agree — that top schools, indeed non-top schools, should let in many more candidates. Given that they don’t do this — this argument is, at this point, not new — how much should we actually trust these institutions of higher education? Should we respect them? Should we honor them? Should we think they’re well-intentioned but somehow just not understanding the argument? Or should we think they’re actually self-interested and elitist and anti-egalitarian? What’s our proper mental stance here? I think the argument that institutions are self-interested is not as much of an insult as some people give it credit. I’m willing to take the fully cynical view on this.…
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