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by Sideloader 2231 days ago
You are teaching your nephews to be greedy and to value individual ambition over everything else. In other words, encouraging them to internalize the values of the society in which they live.

This is not very bold or novel, but rather ordinary.

Given all the problems that are coming to light in societies that have have taken individualism to absurd and self-defeating extremes, this is exactly the opposite of what is required if these places are to avoid collapsing into failed states, technocratic dictatorships or banana republics run by and for delusional oligarchs.

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That's a very ungenerous take on that blog post.
Did not sound like that to me at all honestly.
This is not a good take