Politics & Society
The Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell · 1995
Why smart people keep being wrong about everything, and why they never pay a price for it.
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Why smart people keep pushing policies that fail, and why they never pay a price for it. Once you see the pattern, you can't unsee it.
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Quotes from The Vision of the Anointed
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“In other words, when people choose their occupations according to what the public wants and is willing to pay for. that is ‘greed,’ but when the public is forced to pay for what the anointed want done...”
“The world of the anointed is a very tidy place—or, put differently, every deviation of the real world from the tidiness of their vision is considered to be someone’s fault. If employment or college ad...”
p. 244
“One of the most remarkable feats of those with the vision of the anointed has been the maintenance of their reputations in the face of repeated predictions that proved to be wrong by miles.”
· THE IRRELEVANCE OF EVIDENCE
“It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.”
p. 136
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
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