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Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast in Revisionist History where he likens museums to dragons (hoarding art); I think that's wonderfully apt. Whenever I see institut
by thechao 3y ago
Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast in Revisionist History where he likens museums to dragons (hoarding art); I think that's wonderfully apt. Whenever I see institutions, like Harvard, endlessly accumulating wealth above-and-beyond what they "need", I always think of them as "another kind of dragon". I think this interacts with Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy[1].
[1] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoBTW Gladwell is one of the people who does know better about university endowments and still leads with the anger-inducing high school arithmetic view of the situation (in his podcast, in this case). ref. https://philanthropydaily.com/what-malcolm-gladwell-gets-wrong-and-right-about-university-endowments/ https://philanthropydaily.com/what-malcolm-gladwell-gets-wro...