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Friedrich Hayek made the point on numerous occasions that the more a person has been educated, the greater the likelihood he is an idiot …

Friedrich Hayek made the point on numerous occasions that the more a person has been educated, the greater the likelihood he is an idiot …

November 19, 2016 Nate

– Bill Bonne Hormegeddon p. 30

Friedrich Hayek made the point on numerous occasions that the more a person has been educated, the greater the likelihood he is an idiot. That insight may or may not be true of those who spent their school years in engineering and science; it is certainly true for those who have studied economics. The more they have learned, the dumber they get. Like a cloud rising against a mountain, when a young person enters the economics department, the higher up the academic slope he goes, the more the common sense rains out of him.”


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