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Until very recently, for thousands of years you could only succeed in society if you were rhetorically compelling
Recently, a route began to open up for some smart people, scientists, philosophers
And, since the 1990s, it’s become very easy to make money, friends, and status online, without saying a word
You can make billion dollar companies with only double digit staff counts
As such, society assigned less status to rhetoric, which became a less accurate indicator of success 1 reply
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