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What an interesting thesis! Could you clarify how buying into DeSci equates to shorting academia? Aren’t most scientists in the DeSci space also college graduates?

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With the success (failure) rates of starting-up, would this even be 0.00001% scaleable? Rather, what if universities changed their incentives and structure? Would you short Olin? World over (including us - Atria University in India), there are experiments in building "non-traditional" universities. Need more people to support those.

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Interesting parallel - dating apps might be another system hitting this 'Tragedy of Scale.' The stats are strikingly similar to academia's inequality: top 10% of profiles get 90% of attention, creating massive disparities in access to meaningful connections. Just as top institutions gatekeep education, dating apps have inadvertently created their own form of social gatekeeping. Makes you wonder what other social systems are ripe for this kind of analysis.

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Love it Adam. That’s why I started “book club” on my YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@andrewduggleby?si=0dARIAa8VCtFePpv

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Couldn't agree more Adam!

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