<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 November 2012 10:09, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Maybe you hang around with the wrong society?<br></blockquote><div><br>It may be... :-) <br><br>Or, since I was of course speaking of megatrends, the increasing "monetarisation" of social values, status, power, peer recognition, etc., may just be my taking at face value rants which in fact have been widespread since the Ancien Régime, and often with reactionary undertones.<br clear="all">
</div><br>Hard data however exist with regard to the comparative appeal of different educational and career paths for brilliant students, or with regard to the evolution of the comparative influence, subjective sense of achievement and life standards of people in different social roles, which are not entirely comforting as to what is worth what in our societies and the future of the latter.<br>
<br></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>