02 / prediction

15 Dec 2022

All the meritocratic elites eventually turn into aristocratic elites, which is where I think you start seeing this trend now towards people wanting to spend down their fortunes within their lifetime or within a set number of decades after they die because they see what happened in previous generations and are like, “Oh, I don't want to do that.

“All the meritocratic elites eventually turn into aristocratic elites, which is where I think you start seeing this trend now towards people wanting to spend down their fortunes within their lifetime or within a set number of decades after they die because they see what happened in previous generations and are like, “Oh, I don't want to do that.”

Speaker: Nadia Asparouhova
Episode: Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy
Publisher: Dwarkesh Podcast

Nadia Asparouhova

What Nadia said.

I wish people would just think a little bit more creatively because I really do think effective altruism becomes the default option for a lot of people.